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Maybe not the only #alignment chart you'll ever need ... but probably the last.
OpenAI released GPT-4.1. Early reports suggest the model sometimes follows instructions less reliably than before. The “alignment” debate continues.
Details: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/openais-gpt-4-1-may-be-less-aligned-than-the-companys-previous-ai-models
You can try GPT-4.1 in https://yuzu.chat
Current techniques for #AI #safety and #alignment are fragile, and often fail
This paper proposed something deeper: giving the AI model a theory of mind, empathy, and kindness
The paper doesn't have any evidence; it's really just an hypothesis
I'm a bit doubtful that anthropomorphizing like this is really useful, but certainly it would be helpful if we were able to get more safety at a deeper level
If only Asimov's Laws were something we could actually implement!
arXiv.orgCombining Theory of Mind and Kindness for Self-Supervised Human-AI AlignmentAs artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into critical infrastructures and everyday life, ensuring its safe deployment is one of humanity's most urgent challenges. Current AI models prioritize task optimization over safety, leading to risks of unintended harm. These risks are difficult to address due to the competing interests of governments, businesses, and advocacy groups, all of which have different priorities in the AI race. Current alignment methods, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), focus on extrinsic behaviors without instilling a genuine understanding of human values. These models are vulnerable to manipulation and lack the social intelligence necessary to infer the mental states and intentions of others, raising concerns about their ability to safely and responsibly make important decisions in complex and novel situations. Furthermore, the divergence between extrinsic and intrinsic motivations in AI introduces the risk of deceptive or harmful behaviors, particularly as systems become more autonomous and intelligent. We propose a novel human-inspired approach which aims to address these various concerns and help align competing objectives.
Heng Li's bliog: Short RNA-seq read alignment with minimap2 https://lh3.github.io/2025/04/18/short-rna-seq-read-alignment-with-minimap2
"TL;DR: the new preset splice:sr in minimap2 can align short RNA-seq reads. It is similar to STAR in resource usage, approaches STAR in junction accuracy, and is overall better at SNP calling."
lh3.github.ioShort RNA-seq read alignment with minimap2
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#Harvard
#Fascist #Alignment of #Education
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...cow, you always good for the jugular of the biggest bully there. After subduing him, all others will fall into line.
It is the same strategy the #OrangePeril is pursuing with #NGO's: if he manages to bankrupt #Greenpeace, which other NGO will oppose him afterwards?
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#Harvard
#Fascist #Alignment of #Education
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#Trump coming for #Harvard makes utter sense:
1) It is almost exactly how the #Nazis took over all branches of the #WeimarRepublic in the 1930's
2) All revolutionaries come for the university students, because they usually constitute the leaders for future opposition (e. g. #Mao, #Stalin,...)
Controlling #Education is indispensable:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406
3) If you are among dangerous people that you need to...
MastodonHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image
@Nonilex@masto.ai
👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈 1)
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After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.
#TheStultificationOfAmerica
The...
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The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople
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... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as #Reagan and #GeorgeOrwell
discovered decades ago.
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Dumbing of America:
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/
2)*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the #Alignment of German society by the #Nazis in the 1930's, I recommend this:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113908931207716944
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Salon.com · How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond
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The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople 1)
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After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.
What is alignment?
Does alignment imply ignoring the reality of harm through toxic positivity? No.
Alignment:
- Acknowledges the reality of destructive agents, parts of the systems that don't work, and their impacts, while
- Focusing intention and attention on the presence of constructive agents, parts of the system that do work.
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Pipeline release! nf-core/pacvar v1.0.1 - v1.0.1 - Sardine [3/6/2025]!
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/pacvar/releases/tag/1.0.1
GitHubRelease v1.0.1 - Sardine [3/6/2025] · nf-core/pacvarWhat's Changed
Changed files produced downstream from PBSV to have an output file name containing 'sv' to indicate origin of the files, as with those files downstream from GATK4 and Deepvariant ha...
Good Idea: Corporation Alignment
Just like we worry about AI systems being programmed with goals that might lead to unintended harm, we should also think about how corporations are “programmed” to prioritize profit above everything else. When a business is only focused on making money, it can end up causing damage—whether that's exploiting workers, harming the environment, or ignoring the needs of society.
Joseph Jaworski speaks of the ability to sense and seize opportunities as they arise:
"You have to pay attention to where that opportunity may arise that goes clunk with what your deeper intention tells you to do. When that happens, then you act in an instant. Then I operate from my highest self, which allows me to take risks that I normally would not have taken."
As a change maker, this is an essential skill to cultivate.
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Activity Workshop - GpsPrune https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/ #geolocation #photography #OpenSource #alignment #align #photo #track #java #GPX #gps
activityworkshop.netActivity Workshop - GpsPruneThe GpsPrune section of the Activity Workshop, giving information and downloads for the GpsPrune GPS application
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Third: We eliminate the BS of traditional OKR "cascading."
Cascading OKRs down through the levels of an organization to the individual may sound good in theory, and sells a lot of OKR software, but in reality it burns a ton of time, effort, and overhead (and usually hurts the quality of the methodology adoption instead of helping it).
Instead, we focus on creating "best practice" OKRs at the top two levels of the org, then embrace a flexible bottoms-up approach from there.
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#BreakingNews #USpol #TrumpCoup
#EthnicCleansing of the "#DeepState"?
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True to one core strategy of #Project2025 1), President Trump will not be bogged down by the thousands and thousands of non-politically appointed feder-goverment employees.
As he cannot force them out (yet,) he is offering many of them a "Golden Handshake".
In this way, the Gleichschaltung ("#Alignment") of the federal administration, a strategy pioneered by the Third Reich...
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https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/project-2025
The Heritage FoundationProject 2025With the Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, it’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right. For decades, as the left has continued its march through America’s institutions, conservatives have been outgunned and outmatched when it comes to the art of government.
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#USpol #Fascism
@pojntfx
#TikTok"s CEO will be at the inauguration of the first convicted-fellon president-elect, jointly with the fascist #TESCREAL #TechOligarch, #Elmo.
As you know from your history classes, what is the most important strategy in the rise of fascism?--The #Alignment of society (#Gleichschaltung.)
With #SuckerBerg having joined the #MAGA fray this week, the unholy alliance of them and the #fascist #Longtermist #Musk #TechBros, #TikTok is priceless for them.
Greg Cocks Elevation-Derived Hydrography [EDH] - The USGS’s Rich New Hydrological Features Dataset
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https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2024.0314A <-- shared paper
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/tm11B12 <-- USGS EDH Representation, Extraction, Attribution, and Delineation Rules reference publication
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https://www.usgs.gov/3d-hydrography-program <-- shared link to the USGS 3DHP page
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[in my role, I have the pleasure of working with the valuable EDH process(es) and the data it produces on a daily basis]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #hydrography #3dep #edh #3dhp #elevationderivedhydrography #opendata #elevation #dem #dtm #interpretation #waterfeatures #usecase #waterresources #floodmodeling #alignment #model #modeling #dataset #naturalresources #costs #benefits #economics #businessuse #publicdata #spatialanalysis #USA #USGS
@USGS
When taking into account #visual #communication,
the online debate around #climate #change is characterized by the presence of #echo #chambers
with only a small fraction of content circulating among both climate activists and climate skeptics.
In cases where the same visual content circulates within the two groups,
the emotional reactions are often opposed,
with reactions that are more defined by the pre-existing climate #ideological #alignment
than with an actual engagement with the content.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2420787#abstract