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Posts by Thomas Arnold

Is he going to be part of Notre Dame's $50M "Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence, and Agency" AI project? This post would not seem to fit but then again I might have sloppy notions of human dignity, love, etc., etc.
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The ethical parallel is the complete vapidity of "alignment" from data, as if norms were optimization. You can't infer a negative ("Don't recommend self-harm") from sheer absence of behavior. Which is why even with ghost work behind the scenes LLM's will continue to violate.

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XYZilary Putnam ("just like him!" reviewers rave)

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The Price Is Not Right: Neuro-Symbolic Methods Outperform VLAs on Structured Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks with Significantly Lower Energy Consumption Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently been proposed as a pathway toward generalist robotic policies capable of interpreting natural language and visual inputs to generate manipulation acti...

How a neurosymbolic approach outperforms an LLM (VLA) on a novel problem-solving task AND consumes much less energy in the process. arxiv.org/abs/2602.19260

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Oh, you saint
America don't love you
So I could never love you
In spite of everything

-- The Song Book of Ezra

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The plebs are told to think globally while the Straussians act locally

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A high-quality photo of the wedding ring. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

A high-quality photo of the wedding ring. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

A photo of the wedding ring on my hand. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

A photo of the wedding ring on my hand. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

I just lost my wedding ring at Newark airport terminal C in the bathroom near departures when you first enter near door 3.

~10:30am Eastern Time Friday April 17th

Our flight doesn't leave until 2pm

DM ME IF YOU GET INFORMATION ABOUT THIS

@phoenix-rights.bsky.social is at lost & found now

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Ducks, Zion

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Reviewer 2: If the author can run a condition with the literal Queen of England before the conference cutoff, the paper might merit inclusion in the proceedings.

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Settlers of Findhorn

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Vance later clarified he meant Thielogy, where you go into the desert and take the first offer of boundless power and wealth a benefactor gives you.

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Monika Bielskyte (@monikabielskyte) The future should not be defined by those most insulated from the consequences of their actions. https://monikabielskyte.substack.com/p/we-can-always-do-something-about?r=1fofg&utm_medium=ios

The future should not be defined by those most insulated from the consequences of their actions. But it has been.

I wrote why, and how we could try and change our future briefs:

substack.com/@monikabiels...

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The one thing from Copenhagen an analytic philosopher will read.

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"Options vested" is the real AI ethics tenure.

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It's what makes science a heartening vocation!
-- Weber

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I'm not "past deadline," my draft is so powerful I cannot release it to reviewers.

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www.openculture.com/2024/12/disc...

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Or remember Kissinger at HAI's inaugural event.

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I'm trying to think of how much of academia one has to have never experienced to think Bluesky quotes are the working-face of "Is this how adults should interact?"

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True, I have a hard time not associating it with Billy Graham's advice column and astrology (its soulcrafting neighbors on the local paper's page).

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Fears leading to being "safer" I guess, I always hated these.

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Just as his mind is perfect but for the contaminants of self-reflection and factual reporting, Teslas wouldn't collide with toddlers or veer onto sidewalks but for roads rutted by woke forces.

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I'm not an egg Christian, I'm an omelette Christian.

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Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...

I'm still recovering from this 2020 piece, so maybe I'll get to this if the world's still around in 2028. www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

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And here I thought the collective was an Institute of Politics of elite gormlessness.

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Just saw this so had to share within 15 seconds. bsky.app/profile/gold...

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My kid's particulates are accomplishing an incredible amount while they're out jogging around the school track. What are YOUR kid's lung agents doing?!

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Breaking Even

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Looking forward to this book and the May @interintellect.bsky.social salon discussing it.

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This Be the Festschrift

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