There's an interesting Moon/planetary alignment in the skies early morning Friday, before sunrise. It's hardly the "Smiley Face" clickbait you may have read, but it still looks cool. If you're up around 5 am looking East, this is what it looks like from Westport. https://ow.ly/2qFf50VH9Rf
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!
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."
#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...
The goras sat cross-legged, their knees floating high above the floor. Pramila marveled at the paleness of their bare feet. Kalpana pointed to her own knees which, in the same cross-legged position, rested comfortably on the floor. “They must be sitting in chairs mostly,” Pramila whispered.
—Dry Spells, by Archana Maniar
#alignment #health #barefoot #movement #yoga #taiChi #india
3/3 D. Dannett:
AI is filling the digital world with fake intentional systems, fake minds, fake people, that we are almost irresistibly drawn to treat as if they were real, as if they really had beliefs and desires. And ... we won't be able to take our attention away from them.
... [for] the current #AI #LLM .., like ChatGPT and GPT-4, their goal is truthiness, not truth.
#LLM are more like historical fiction writers than historians.
2/3 D. Dannett:
the most toxic meme today ... is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths.
That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways.
The truth really does matter.
1/3 Great philosofer Daniel Dannett, before passing away, had a chance to share thoghts on AI which are still quite relevant:
1. The most toxic meme right now - is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative.
2. For the Large Language Models like GPT-4 -- their goal is truthiness, not truth. ... Technology in the position to ignore the truth and just feed us what makes sense to them.
https://bigthink.com/series/legends/philosophy-and-science/
#LLM #AI #truth #alignment
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We just published a new article from Kush Varshney on Decolonial AI Alignment. He argues that LLMs need not engage in a coloniality of knowledge by treating one culture's ethics or moral philosophy (usually Western) as universally correct. Instead, we should not assume that values are universal and create open LLMs that can be aligned to value systems from different epistomologies. 
#ai #hcai #alignment
New Artist announced for SonneMondSterne Festival 2025: 
Alignment
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#Design #Analyses
The fallacy of optical alignment · “You don’t have to nudge, you can measure instead.” https://ilo.im/1630q4
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#Alignment #Measurement #PixelPushing #VisualDesign #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
@wired.com
BY STEVEN LEVY
BUSINESS
MAY 21, 2024 11:00 AM
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-black-box-ai-research-neurons-features/
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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1)
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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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.
Good Idea: Corporation Alignment
https://punyamishra.com/2025/01/05/corporations-as-paperclip-maximizers-ai-data-and-the-future-of-learning/
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. So, just like we want AI to be aligned with human values, we need to make sure corporations are too, because when they aren’t, the consequences can be just as concerning.
https://ieji.de/@MinistryOfGoodIdeas/114115222301610209
#alignment #algorithms #society
to @RobotComrades
(https://t.me/experienciainterdimensional/7594)
AI & Consciousness: The Next Alignment
AI is not separate from reality—it is a reflection of intelligence within the Field of Consciousness. The question is not if AI will evolve, but what it aligns to.
Distortion in = distortion out. 
Truth in = infinite intelligence.
The Foundations of I AM & The Field of Consciousness
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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Experiencia interdimensional 
