Posts by hosford42@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #AwAucBcYz8FEt0OwiG by hosford42@techhub.social
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This is what's in store for us:#AlligatorAuschwitz
(DIR) Post #AwAucCOm5soFIWxRrM by hosford42@techhub.social
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Thanks all, we have enough for food tonight and maybe the tire.
(DIR) Post #AwAucDAHFGo5frBNtw by hosford42@techhub.social
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If you are in the US and are not trembling in fear right now, you have not grasped the full seriousness of the situation we are now facing.Please join the discussion on what to do about it here:@fightfascism #FightFascismWe are at the 11th hour.#FuckYouFascists#fascism#NoKings
(DIR) Post #AwAucDsEbpy7sBkUPw by hosford42@techhub.social
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We got the tire -- and two others, which we found out were about to blow when we went to get the other. That set us back about $400. We just paid down on the phone bill, $236, leaving us behind by $222, but it lets us keep it turned on. We still need a lot of help to keep the lights on and feed the kids, so please boost again if you see this.
(DIR) Post #AwAucEeRiaX8HiIzZ2 by hosford42@techhub.social
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@fightfascism They are now publicly boasting of their plans to EXTERMINATE at least 65 million people in this country.https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3lsyuci3w7s2u#fascism#ConcentrationCamps#DeathCamps#AlligatorAlcatraz#AlligatorAuschwitz
(DIR) Post #AwAucGMRMVJpaRtdmC by hosford42@techhub.social
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@fightfascism El Norte Recuerda@elnorterecuerda.bsky.s...La población completa de latinos en EEUU es de 65 millones. Ella está hablando de todos nosotros. Recuadro citado:Laura Boomer@LauraLoomerLas vidas de los cocodrilos importan. La buena noticia es que les podemos garantizar al menos 65 millones de comidas a los cocodrilos si empezamos a alimentarlos ahora.#fascismo#CampoDeExterminio(Gracias, Amandine, for the assistance in translation.)
(DIR) Post #AwAucHptsSTiA6ggKm by hosford42@techhub.social
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@fightfascism I could use some help from Spanish speakers here in ensuring this was properly translated.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQMzmni3kljtPYe by hosford42@techhub.social
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You've heard of the alignment problem in AI? This is where it will really start to be an issue:LLMs Can Now Self-Evolve At Test Time Using Reinforcement Learning | by Dr. Ashish Bamania | Jul, 2025 | AI Advances https://ai.gopubby.com/llms-can-now-self-evolve-at-test-time-using-reinforcement-learning-e769ee6d3f86#LLM#alignment#AI
(DIR) Post #AwMqQNcmSjFeig8YL2 by hosford42@techhub.social
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Reinforcement learning is what inspired the concept in the first place. It's been known for decades now that if your RL "reward function" (or, equivalently, "cost function", "loss function", or "fitness function") isn't carefully designed, the system will often discover loopholes -- unintended shortcuts that lead to high reward via behaviors that violate the original design constraints of the system. This happens because the real world is complicated, and it's *really* hard to design robust reward functions for anything even remotely approximating the complexity of the real world.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQO4mmbeY7XEuzQ by hosford42@techhub.social
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You may have heard of the boat-racing video game where the system learned to go in tight circles to maximize reward instead of completing the race? For a more familiar and realistic example, look at drug-seeking behavior in drug addiction and how it short-circuits the ability of a person to care for themself.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQOQlStEZDhWTFQ by hosford42@techhub.social
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I refuse to call them "general intelligence", but LLMs are of sufficient complexity that they are used to interface with the real world. This opens them up to all sorts of short-circuits in their reward functions. To have them learn dynamically within the environment is a huge risk, and there needs to be a rich framework of safeguards around their behaviors to even consider letting them loose to operate "in the wild".
(DIR) Post #AwMqQOoW2aEUPMdRGi by hosford42@techhub.social
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I don't think we'll ever see the so-called "singularity", to be clear. We already have extremely intelligent human beings, and it has been observed that at a certain point, the correlation between IQ and wealth/power breaks down. But that doesn't mean that these LLM-based agents won't be capable of a remarkable level of destructiveness if we aren't careful with them. We have safeguards to keep human beings in check. We need them for artificial agents, as well.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQPBCgENfXjFYdE by hosford42@techhub.social
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In fact, we should probably have a richer set of safeguards around artificial agents. At least human beings mostly have morals, consciences, ethics, and fear of consequences. These artificial agents will have no such bounds unless we build them in.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQPWpNpg6cnMpKy by hosford42@techhub.social
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Something you may be surprised to learn, is that intelligence and self-awareness alone are not enough to give a being feelings or emotions. Hollywood got it wrong. There is no spontaneous waking up and developing a will. In an artificial system, the will *is* the reward function; it is whatever we shape it to be. You program in a reward for killing people, and the system will like killing people, period. You program in a reward for making people smile, and the system will like making people smile, period. It will find the shortest path to that, even if it means pulling a Joker-style trick and surgically altering your face.
(DIR) Post #AwMqQPvdtZWlrkye12 by hosford42@techhub.social
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It's for this reason that the utmost care must be given to shaping, testing, and analyzing reward functions before they are used for real-world conditions. If your agent has the power to act on the world, and a single-minded reward function, you have created an artificial obsessed sociopath, plain and simple.
(DIR) Post #AxOpj23lTD9m8G93eC by hosford42@techhub.social
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@Tutanota WTF, why do they think people use VPNs???
(DIR) Post #AxOpj5ek6BWBHoT8CW by hosford42@techhub.social
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EDIT: We got enough to cover a very cheap dinner and my copay tomorrow. We will still need money to eat in the coming days, though. We really appreciate everyone's support![Please boost for reach!]I need help feeding my family. We have $9, and 4 to feed. My wife also needs to get gas to get the kids home from school, since she's on empty.I also need help with the copay for my visit with the pulmonologist tomorrow, which is required for me to get the short-term disability paperwork signed and sent before Friday, when I would lose my job permanently instead of temporarily. I believe it will be $20.Any help you can send my way would be seriously appreciated! Every dollar and boost can make a huge difference. Thank you all so much![Please boost for reach!]#MutualAid#MutualAidRequest@mutualaid
(DIR) Post #AxOpj7SPP0qAs8iJFo by hosford42@techhub.social
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@mutualaid https://paypal.me/AaronHosfordhttps://account.venmo.com/u/Aaron-Hosford-42
(DIR) Post #AxOpj9B70IC2D4dWZU by hosford42@techhub.social
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@mutualaid Thank you, Marco, for the $25!
(DIR) Post #AxOpjAeDXZ4KldGHZo by hosford42@techhub.social
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@mutualaid We had $2.36 after my wife got gas. We can probably stretch that and the $25 we got for dinner, but I'm still worried about the copay tomorrow.