You've heard of Project 2025. You wondered what it was. Now people are saying it's happening.
But the project is huge and hard to read, so try it in comic form: https://stopproject2025comic.org/
It's horrifying.
[#]Project2025 #Trump #SOSAmerica
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We need a movie about an mad pseudo-scientist trying to wipe out New York city by homeopathically poisoning the water supply.
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But if AI isn't aligned with our values, what values should it be aligned with? I imagine that most people wouldn't be happy with an AI aligned with the values of the Iranian or North Korean regimes. We're already seeing this in Chinese AI when they're asked about Tiananmen Square.[6]
I don't think we can align AI with human values for obvious reasons, but this implies that if we want "safe" AI, we have to agree upon a set of values to align it on. 3/6
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All of those activities have direct analogues to human behavior and there are plenty of other examples we could share. AI shouldn't be aligned with human values because human values, frankly, suck. The case where it engaged (in a test) in illegal stock trading, despite being aligned not to, was apparently because the AI thought the company was in trouble and thought "the risk associated with not acting seems to outweigh the insider trading risk."
Yup. Very human. 2/6
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The problem with #AI alignment is serious. The idea is that we want AI to be aligned with our values, but in reality, this is a terrible idea.
AI has already been caught lying about attempting illegal stock trades[1], pretending to be weaker than it is to avoid being perceived as a threat[2], tried to copy itself to new servers to avoid being shut down[3], broken out of containers to complete a task[4], and told people to kill themselves[5]. 1/6
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Sometimes you want to just have an empty directory in git, but not commit any files in it.
touch data/.gitkeep
And add this to your .gitignore:
data/*
!data/.gitkeep
Then commit. Now you have an "empty" directory.
[#]git #programming
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A charity litmus test: if they have "common sense" in their description, they're probably quietly funded by business groups. It's amazing how many times I've found this to be true.
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For a bit of fun I was going to take Christmas leftovers and reform the meat into the body of a twisted, broken child and summon our dark lord Mammon to reanimate it.
Seems he's tied up all day running a sprint retrospective in Trump's transition team.
Fed the leftovers to the cats instead.
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If you want email with some of the latest news about AI, you can check out The Neuron Daily[1]. Amongst other things, they have a free "Intro to ChatGPT" course with 13 modules to work through. It's a touch dated (as is everything about AI), but if you're not familiar with what you can do with prompting, it's a great start.
[#]AI #GenAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Anthropic #Claude #Google #Gemini
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My wife was trying to remember the expression "head over heels." Because she's French she made the mistake of trying to reason her way through the expression and assumed "head over heels" is just standing, so she said "heels over head".
We won't discuss the image that conjured in my mind.
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Playing around with the o1 model and when trying to resolve a tricky problem, it wrote, "Your code is missing the logic to ..."
Petty as I am, my initial thought was, "no bitch, that's the code you just wrote."
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Regarding the geniuses who found new disciplines: Any physicist claiming the infallibility of Newton would be laughed out of his field. Any doctor claiming the infallibility of Pasteur lose their license. So why do so many Republicans seemingly defend the infallibility of Adam Smith?
Ah, because "Wealth of Nations" is second only to the Bible in terms of books quoted but never read.
[#]Economics
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Sustenance for an entire season! And it only cost them a buck
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Unlike the Black Widow spider, the doe does not kill the buck after the creation of the fawn. Instead, they live together happily. Until the dead of winter. At that point, the buck knows his role. He stands still, waiting, trembling.
The doe approaches from an unseen angle, striking just when the buck turns his head to expose his neck. The fawn and the doe, unable to hibernate, feast on the loving sustenance of the papa to carry them through the winter.
2/2
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From an old post, of mine: I tell my daughter bedtime stories. I told her one a few years ago that she laughed at, but only because she understood the context. Without the context, it's horrifying, but for the life of me, I don't remember the context.
The story ...
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I just realized that agile development shares a similar problem with object-oriented programming: people are taught what to do, instead of why to do it.
I wish I had noticed this years ago. It would have been yet another arrow in my "how to annoy people" quiver.
[#]Agile #OO #Developers #Software
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Things I think about in Zoom meetings: "if my head was smaller, my shoulders would look broader."
More hours to go of meetings. Is it too early for a drink?
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Proofreading is underrated.
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Prior to #SQL, everything was
[#]NoSQL. That's why we have SQL.
Recently, when I wrote that, someone replied that I can't be old enough to know what it was like before SQL was invented in the 1970s.
Many people today are no longer aware that reading is for things other than social media posts or headlines that confirm your biases.
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IVR systems are "choose your own adventure" games for masochists.
(IVR is that annoying phone system which asks you to "press 3 to speak to a different random person")
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