Alex Kozak

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That's the charitable interpretation, but I also wonder if a lot of the insurers who pulled out of the CA market broadly weren't also looking for reasons not to renew policies. IIRC, the CDI wasn't allowing granular pricing based on actual risk.

Not sufficient for what?

I don't think it's wrong to be concerned with whether modeling language ends up modeling biology in enough detail to be useful, but dismissing it outright seems way wrong. It's been really surprising how powerful a prism language is, and "usefulness" is a lower bar.

It's not obvious to me that this is true? To the extent that words correspond to reality, and statistical analysis of enough words can result in a model of reality, it might actually turn out to be useful. But agree, we shouldn't assume we can fully describe (and therefore model) the body.

This man is going to be a father 🥴

How would you distinguish between a company making a product that people enjoy and find useful (therefore maybe generating some brand loyalty and retaining customers) from intentionally generating human emotional attachment? Is it unethical to sell a car with comfortable leather seats?

Internet scholars: Does anyone know of a *recent* study of the CIPA-compliant filtering provider landscape in US libraries and schools? Apparently the e-rate administrative entity doesn't collect that information.

I seem to recall some of that happening with the weird quantum consciousness stuff. But usually philosophers or science are more interested in understanding and cataloging the epistemological moves themselves than wading into the first order debates, so heterodox theories are good fodder.

Maybe they will add a header tomorrow, but that doorway seems like a done deal

Neighbors getting the carpentry they're paying for 😅

from a grassy knoll

Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.

Why didn't Salieri just get good?

New from me and @derekslater.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org: What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’

Hmm, proof of concept indeed. Must take forever on most computers...

Not defending the deal, but the terms actually sounded pretty favorable to Intel. Accelerates the path to cash, no pesky grant conditions, votes with the board. Market doesn't seem to mind the dilution www.intc.com/news-events/...

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Estate sale score!

Paywall :(

I'm still smitten with the CC style human deed. Probably doesn't work for ToSes or PPs, but still fun to think about.

Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences Recent work in large language modeling (LLMs) has used fine-tuning to align outputs with the preferences of a prototypical user. This work assumes that human preferences are static and homogeneous acr...

Basing models on public web content is somewhat closer to public involvement than, say, printed encyclopedias. There are also some intriguing ideas to do RL based on social preferences (though, I think may lead to new issues), eg arxiv.org/abs/2211.15006 and www.anthropic.com/research/col...

It's not even true!!

Leave Banks out of all this 😭

Ah jeez. Very glad you're ok

certainly spicy!

I always assumed he was implicitly critiquing British empire. ie take the most positive version of it imaginable, and show how contact is *still* morally questionable

Feeling a little dumb for paying attention and counting votes on the state AI enforcement moratorium. Had an OK time and life is all about the ride I guess.

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS. In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

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am I being trolled lol

I see! Depending on specifics, policy outcome could similar to a permission-only regime, may reinforce incumbents

Not following? (c) exceptions distributed unevenly based on size of monkey?