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When [Bill Joy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy) created the vi text editor he used the [ADM-3A terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A), which had the arrows on `hjkl` keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history.

Here Is Why Vim Uses HJKL Keys as Arrow Keys

catonmat.net

The other thing about chat was when we had these instruct models. The task of “complete this text, but in a nice or helpful way” is a pretty poorly defined task. That task is both confusing for the model and for the human who's supposed to do the data labeling. Whereas for chat, people had an intuitive sense of what a helpful robot should be like. So it was just much easier for people to get an idea of what the model was supposed to do. As a result, the model had a much more coherent personality and it was much easier to get pretty sensible behavior robustly.

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

Dwarkesh Patel

We should be so fortunate to greet each other as we greet each other’s pets. To say thank you for the most obvious of things and mean it.

[TTT2] — Day 2: Rainbow Bridge, Odaiba, Toyosu, Tsukishima

Craig Mod

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