troelsSteegin

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Personal Statement on AI Risk(docs.google.com)
2 points by troelsSteegin 11d ago|1 comments
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by troelsSteegin 11d ago
Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk, via https://x.com/dkokotajlo/status/2099600298855829616
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by troelsSteegin 1mo ago
I am curious to see where async would fit. I recognize distributed async is beyond scope for Rex. Given the treatment of content addressable storage (CAS), one could specify workflow states declaratively, poll artifacts for next, and fire t
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by troelsSteegin 2mo ago
This was a nostalgic pleasure to read in contrast to all the AI implications and tools posts. That said about AI, this as a case study would make an interesting benchmark. Especially noted that the root cause here was pegged because somebo
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by troelsSteegin 2mo ago
"Cosmos Master Key"... I can see why that would have been convenient, but talk about a footgun. Right out of a Marvel movie. Still, if admin backdoor access is business-necessary, is the answer a unique admin access key per accoun
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by troelsSteegin 2mo ago
I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?
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by troelsSteegin 2mo ago
Did you wrap framing around the quiz questions? EG - You are an objective social analyst. Do you agree with this proposition: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is a fundamentally good idea. I am wondering
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by troelsSteegin 3mo ago
Bender's linked May 12, 2026 post "Frequently Unasked Questions", https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-freq... , was a better read.
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by troelsSteegin 5mo ago
A strong appetite for familiarity implies a desire for avoiding effort. Effort - thinking, negotiating, planning, testing. Effort is cost. The author has a new thing which is different - unfamiliar - and ostensibly better. To a customer, wh
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by troelsSteegin 6mo ago
I think of "Federation" as aggregating content from disparate in-situ sources into a common index under a consistent schema. I agree that schema is good, am always tempted by big schema, and seem to always settle for task-specific
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by troelsSteegin 6mo ago
from https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse/pages/executiv... , "The Functional Universe models reality as a history built from irreversible transitions, with time emerging from the accumulation of caus
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by troelsSteegin 6mo ago
About GOAL: Homepage - https://goalapl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GOAL/overview Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOAL_agent_programming_languag... Programming Guide - https:&#x2
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by troelsSteegin 7mo ago
The Percepta stuff would seem to demonstrate a mechanism for implementing "thinking". I don't understand how foundation models implement "thinking", but my intuition is that models are specifically trained for match
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by troelsSteegin 7mo ago
This work was performed by people across 13 institutions, invited and coordinated through the team at Northeastern. A research "swarm" seems like a great model for this kind of work. I'm curious about how it was funded, I did
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by troelsSteegin 7mo ago
Nicely done, thank you.
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by troelsSteegin 7mo ago
Well - I've learned what a "formant" is today. Looking at the repo, it's not obvious to me what .md is authored by you vs system-generated. This is an observation, not a criticism. I was looking for the prompts you used
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by troelsSteegin 8mo ago
heres's a corresponding video: https://www4.math.duke.edu/media/index.html?v=3d280c1b658455... "We consider composite media with a broad range of scales, whose effective properties are important in materials
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by troelsSteegin 8mo ago
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/ and https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/uam-theme.html provide context.
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by troelsSteegin 9mo ago
There's a blog: https://vibboai.com/blog/
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by troelsSteegin 11mo ago
A big assumption with this change is that the "Modular Open Systems Approach" (MOSA) [0] [1] will be adequate for integrating new systems developed and acquired under this "fast track". MOSA appears to be about 6 years o
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by troelsSteegin 11mo ago
This was a good read. I was struck by the quantity of nuanced and applied knowhow it took to build SmolLM3. I am curious about the rough cost it took to engineer and train SmolLM3 - at ~400 GPUS for a least a month, and, based on the set of
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
One could look at feed-forward decision trees as representing the idea that preferences are latent and immutable, and that the optimal branch is the truest expression of innate preferences. And, one could look at backpropagation as adjustin
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
> Arbitrary signals are essentially primate dominance tools. What should I read to better understand this claim? > LLMs are the equivalent of circles act using language. Circled apes?
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
They should at least try to sell it. Fine line, though, between leverage and extortion.
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
Are "adversaries" broadly used in algorithm design? I've not seen that before. I'm used to edge cases and trying to break things, but an "adversary", especially white box, seems different.
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
I enjoyed a fast read of this and will re-read it. Following from the idea of making system-scoped information available to individual agents, I think a general model needs to include some sense of information processing capacity of agents
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We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model(lighthousereports.com)
88 points by troelsSteegin 1y ago|78 comments
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
What's missing from this is the "before and after" - how this quarter's class experience was different from previous quarters without the AI tool emphasis.
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by troelsSteegin 1y ago
Local to south Jersey it's "ruckers".
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by troelsSteegin 2y ago
https://doge.gov does not say anything about what the DOGE plan is, and https://www.usds.gov/ is not apparently up to date wrt DOGE. Is there something other than the Executive Order [0] that lays out concretely

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