RL economics, morally charged terms, and “distillation”

After a number of Twitter discussions, and repeating myself a lot in these discussions, it is time to write a short note on the economics of advancing LLM capabilities through RL, about principles of propaganda and coining new words, and about my stubborn refusal to use the term “distillation” except in a specific narrow sense. How do models advance when human-curated data has run out? It’s been a…