Mathias Verraes

Thanks, that seems to be the one, based in some quick googling. A company is using this in their candidate assessment. Testing for autism, without disclosing that and using a made up name, seems unethical and possibly illegal.

However, I can't find anything about, so I suspect the official name is something else. Does this ring a bell?
I want to find out if it's proper science.

Has anyone heard of "Perceptive Collaboration Index (PCI)"? It's supposed to be a test where the subject has to judge the emotions of people based on pictures of their eyes, and it scores their ability to work in teams. (ctd)

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One of them is futile

Ah too bad! I wasn't involved with the selection this year, but we had 600 submissions

Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts by Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social

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Design and Reality : Essays on Software Design by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Mathias Verraes

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I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.

I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

"Stay out of politics" is almost always an authoritarian statement. It attempts to shut down public debate (a cornerstone of democracy) in favour of the person making the demand.

About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

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This! And if we try three more things and none of them work, it's not waste, it's validation

A particular thing works is useful information but not the same as proving that it's the ONLY thing that works

Enjoy!

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Sure we are, we need a landfill to dump the useless robots

Yes, let's fill our homes with robots that are controlled by a fascist megalomaniac trillionaire as if we have never seen a sci-fi movie 🙄

I'm starting to think my hypothesis from our earlier discussion is not holding up...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect seems to apply even more for AI than media.

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Well that's my theory, he's the designated Trump handler (whether successful or not). Trump doesn't talk to the second in command of nations or organisations anyway, so they can do their jobs while Rutte keeps the wolves at bay

I think he is very susceptible to flattery as well, but I don't know if Rutte's style works. In any case, NATO still exists and Rutte still has that position, so that's why I think European NATO members agree with the approach.

Keep in mind that Rutte started acting this way days after that horrible meeting where Trump+Vance bullied Zelensky.

Not publicly. Given what we know about Trump and what is rumoured (Epstein etc), it's possible he loves to be called daddy in this way.

Catching flies with honey and all that. It's just a hypothesis, and if I'm right I don't know how to feel about that

My hypothesis is that internally, European NATO members are in on it, that they support Rutte's strategy of publicly behaving like Trump's loyalists, while privately they try to deal with the problem. If Rutte gets on the wrong foot with Trump, NATO's end could be one tweet away.

Rutte isn't a native speaker either, so it could be an awkward attempt at "looking forward to see you". But obviously Rutte's public strategy is to stay on Trump's good side by (as Dutch people say) spreading syrup on Trump's sleeves.

Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this

It won't change a thing. He's just the face, the fascists will hold on to power at all cost.