Tasks

• Ellis schedule?
• Bloodwork – done

The future is coming:

Is It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies

• What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of “morality-as-cooperation” argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social life. Morality-as-cooperation draws on the theory of non-zero-sum games to identify distinct problems of cooperation and their solutions, and it predicts that specific forms of cooperative behavior—including helping kin, helping your group, reciprocating, being brave, deferring to superiors, dividing disputed resources, and respecting prior possession—will be considered morally good wherever they arise, in all cultures. To test these predictions, we investigate the moral valence of these seven cooperative behaviors in the ethnographic records of 60 societies. We find that the moral valence of these behaviors is uniformly positive, and the majority of these cooperative morals are observed in the majority of cultures, with equal frequency across all regions of the world. We conclude that these seven cooperative behaviors are plausible candidates for universal moral rules, and that morality-as-cooperation could provide the unified theory of morality that anthropology has hitherto lacked.

Book

• Start on the reverse hierarchy section

SBIRs

• Sprint review
• More code generator – first pass is DONE!

Book

• Working on comparing political views of adults and tweens – done?
• Updated the scans of HitF

SBIRs

• Chat with Rukan. Basically bug hunting. It turned out that he hadn’t zeroed his gradients
• Set up Friday meeting with Steve
• Working on code generator
  • bdmon is generated (I think????)
  • Working on module code

I think that this will turn out to be very important

Book

• Canada National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

SBIRs

• Had a good chat with Don last night about potential partnering for the DARPA proposal
• Finished(?) the DARPA abstract
• Sprint planning

GPT Agents

• Need to get setup.py working. Try this? the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart
• 3:30 Meeting

Tasks

• Call security to reset alarm – done using this video!
• Call JD to schedule appt – done. May 9

SBIRs

• Sprint demos
• Work on DARPA proposal

GPT Agents

• Need to get setup.py working. Try this? the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart

Can Instagram ads fight disinformation about climate and COVID vaccines?

• In brief: Reality Team runs ads on Instagram designed to limit the influence of disinformation. We developed a method to run randomized control trials to test the impact on knowledge and opinions about climate and covid vaccines. We saw very significant increases in knowledge 24–72 hours post exposure to a single viewing of a 10 second video ad, and shifts in opinions 7–18 days later within a specific audience of Passive Information Consumers.

Book

• Writing a bit more on Age Dominance
• While reading Hierarchy in the Forest, I realized that Egalitarianism in bands is probably a form of Nash Equilibrium. Which is wild, since my coevolution of weapons and agression turned out to be the iterated prisoner’s dilemma.

SBIRs

• More DARPA abstract. Check to see if the LAIC Phase II proposal has any good text

Firebird tonight!

Book

• add examples of age dominance likeComic book moral panic of the 1950’s – done
• Videogame moral panic of the 1980s(?) – done
• School boards
• Child removal
• The Salem Witch Trials – done
• McMartin Preschool – done
• Pizzagate – done
• QAnon – done
• Etc

SBIRs

• 9:15 standup
• Work on abstract
• More tool
  • Generating all the controllers and cmd/rsp objects
  • Stepping controllers in the loop and advancing the counter
  • Still need to:
    • State tables for BDMON
    • Fill in the task stubs for controller code
• Get Rukan started on autoregressive model – done
• Guided Ron a bit on MinGPT
• Pinged Vika about our box. She’s looking into it

Book

• Finished the first pass at age bias. I still want to add examples of age dominance like
  • Comic book moral panic of the 1950’s
  • Videogame moral panic of the 1980s(?)
  • School boards
  • Child removal
  • McMartin Preschool
  • Pizzagate
  • QAnon
  • Etc

SBIRs

• Continue with code generator. I think I need to set up the hmodule class explicitly, rather than having them store a count. This will allow multiple nodes to have multiple children and generate the correct connections
• Good progress. Starting to create modules and connect them in bdmon
• 1:00 Dev meeting
• Look at resumes and send Orest an example of what we’re looking for
• Started work on DARPA medical abstract

Unveiling the higher-order organization of multivariate time series

• Time series analysis has proven to be a powerful method to characterize several phenomena in biological, neural and socio-economic systems, and to understand their underlying dynamical features. Despite a plethora of methods having been proposed for the analysis of multivariate time series, most of them do not investigate whether signals result from independent, pairwise, or group interactions. Here, we propose a novel framework to characterize the temporal evolution of higher-order dependencies within multivariate time series. Using network analysis and topology, we show that, unlike traditional tools, our framework robustly differentiates various spatiotemporal regimes of coupled chaotic maps, including chaotic dynamical phases and various types of synchronization. By analysing fMRI signals, we find that, during rest, the human brain mainly oscillates between chaotic and few partially intermittent states, with higher-order structures reflecting sensorimotor areas. Similarly, in financial and epidemic time series, instead, higher-order information efficiently discriminates between radically different coordination and spreading regimes. Overall, our approach sheds new light on the higher-order organization of multivariate time series, allowing for a better characterization of dynamical group dependencies inherent to real-world systems.

SBIRs

• 8:30 Meeting
• 9:15 standup + went over generator concept
• 2:00 meeting with Ron
• Need to set up overleaf project and add meeting notes section – in progress
• Continue on code generator
• Here’s my fancy piece of code for the dat that sets attributes from a dict:

class HierarchyModule:
    quantity: int
    name: str
    parent: str
    commands:List

    def __init__(self, d:Dict):
        self.quantity = 1 #default
        self.__dict__.update(d)

    def to_string(self) -> str:
        return "name = {}\n\tquantity = {}\n\tparent = {}\n\tcommands = {}".format(self.name, self.quantity, self.parent, self.commands)

• Pretty pleased with how this is going:

Book

• New Orleans school desegregation crisis
• Ruby Bridges (Through My Eyes)

Book

• Worked on the age bias section

SBIRs

• Worked with Rukan on the RCSNN test implementation. You CANNOT have two enum classes with some of the same elements and get an equality between the two
• Chat with Loren about the stunt fom and how the various pieces work together. We’re goring to need some kind of table that describes the behavior of each of the agents

TriMap is a dimensionality reduction method that forms a low-dimensional embedding of data by minimizing a contrastive loss over a set of triplets. The triplets are sampled from the original high-dimensional data representation and are weighted based on the distances between the (closer and farther) pairs of points. Although t-SNE and UMAP are excellent methods for forming low-dimensional embeddings, TriMap provides an alternative view of the data which is more representative “globally”. Specifically, TriMap is able to:

1. reflect the relative placement of the clusters in high-dimension,
2. reveal possible outliers and anomalies in the data,
3. generate embeddings that are more robust to certain transformations (see here for more details).

Book

• Working on ages of presidents and kings. Below is a chart of the Kings of England from 1066 – 1830, split into groups based on the age they became king. The blue bar is the number of rulers and the red is the number who were successful in that their reign lasted longer than 10 years:

• A different way of looking at this is what is the percentage of successful rulers given the age they became king?

SBIRs

• 9:15 standup
• Kickoff with Lauren
• Meeting with Lambda, they’ll get back by next Tuesday
• 2:00 Meeting with Rukan

GPT-Agents

• Changed the logging directory to be user home
• Need to get setup.py working. Try this? the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart
• You.com has added writing support:

SBIRs

• Finish commenting – done!
• Set up project main and three controllers with Rukan
• 11:00 SSDS meeting
• 1:00 Server meeting (also, connect back with Lambda!) Set up meeting for tomorrw

Book

• More Age dominance. Went down a small rabbit hole about age and competence. Did you know that there is almost no relationship between age and historical ratings of US presidents? If anything, younger seems to be a bit better.

• There is some evidence of a U-shaped curve in British Monarchy from 1066 – 1811

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

• By going as close as we dared, we have still crossed a grey moral boundary, demonstrating that it is possible to design virtual potential toxic molecules without much in the way of effort, time or computational resources. We can easily erase the thousands of molecules we created, but we cannot delete the knowledge of how to recreate them.

Drop the computer off for upgrade today? Maybe Thursday would be better. Rain

SBIRs

• 9:15 Sprint planning – done
• 8:30 Meeting with Orest -done
• Set up meeting with SEG for this week – done
• See what’s going on with Lambda – emailed
• Look into autoregressive AttnMLP
• More commenting of RCS2N
• Sent Rukan this to read: 4D/RCS Version 2.0: A Reference Model Architecture for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

GPT-Agents

• 3:30 Meeting – done
• Added logging
• Working on getting kiosk mode running. This helped: https://superuser.com/questions/716426/running-latest-chrome-for-windows-in-kiosk-mode
• Also, we’ll need to explicitly launch Chrome: https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html

Today’s adventures in social media:

GPT-Agents

• Working on Google integration. Here’s tkinterweb, which looks pretty straightforward (github) – first version is done!

SBIRs

• 9:00 Demos
• Working on seeing what kind of server we can get. Pinged Lambda Labs
• Phase II Kickoff – done
• Need to put some stories together for the sprint planning tomorrow