Forgot to take notes from yesterday

SBIRs

• Sent the final final report to Lauren
• 9:00 standup. Lots of work on JSC, which continued through the day
• Prep for the USNA meeting, which went better than last time. Hopefully they are on the right track
• Book club! We decided to do Sciences of the Artificial. We’ll discuss the first chapter next week. Probably worth discussing who Herbert Simon was, too.
• The Killer Apps paper was accepted!

GPT Agents

• Looking into the call for an article on antisemitism for APA’s The psychology of antisemitism, which led to the NSF “dear colleague” letter from the NSF on The Social and Behavioral Science of Bias, Prejudice and Discrimination (BPD), which led to the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. I’d like to use this as an opportunity to build belief space maps.

The much feared “third day of increasing discomfort” has not hit yet. Fingers crossed. There is a lot of swelling. I sorta look like I’ve been punched.

SBIRs

• Had an interesting chat with Aaron about using prompt swarms as a ‘social simulator.’ There may be something there as a way to test out manipulation strategies and mitigations
• More on the W.E. paper. Finished the specified changes. Now I need to start on the bug stuff. Loaded up the 3000.9 and the RAI strategy docs into ContextExplorer. Need to play around with using that for the intro.
• Verify that we received no feedback from the customer for the preliminary final, then change the cover so that it’s just ‘Final Report.’ Sent
• Some chatter about LM and SA/DTA

GPT Agents

• Meeting with Alden

Feeling much better today, though the instructions from the doctor say that I’ll be getting more achy for the next two days or so.

SBIRs

• Doing status by email, since Matt and I have both had surgery
• The no-cost extension is moving, I’m curious if it will happen.
• If no response from the government by COB today, the preliminary report becomes the final. Need to change the cover page and re-submit
• The paper got released from purgatory on ArXiv! Killer Apps: Low-Speed, Large-Scale AI Weapons
• Submitted the MORS abstract!
• Back to work on W.E.

GPT Agents

• Need to close the loop on the NIST talk
• Need to get info to the folks at UMBC
  • Biography (including research area/interests)
  • Headshot
  • LinkedIn, Personal website (if you have one)

Dental surgery today, so probably no posting. I do need to submit the abstract, but there is plenty of time

Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers

• In studies of misinformation, the distinction between high- and low-credibility publishers is fundamental. However, there is much that we do not know about the relationship between the subject matter and timing of content produced by the two types of publishers. By analyzing the content of several million unique articles published over 28 months, we show that high- and low-credibility publishers operate in distinct news ecosystems. Bursts of news coverage generated by the two types of publishers tend to cover different subject matter at different times, even though fluctuations in their overall news production tend to be highly correlated. Regardless of the mechanism, temporally convergent coverage among low-credibility publishers has troubling implications for American news consumers.

Russia amplifies calls for civil war in the U.S.

• This follows a familiar pattern in which Russia disseminates propaganda and disinformation demonizing immigrants and portraying them as disease-ridden or as dangerous criminals, then weaponizes the backlash in order to promote far-right, pro-Russia candidates and parties with harsh anti-immigrant agendas as the “solution” to a problem they themselves helped to create.

Was going to do the Groundhog Day club ride but it is just too cold and wet. Once a week for that kind of thing is enough. Still, early spring! Going to enjoy this until the Eastern Shore floods and Western Maryland is on fire.

Chores

• Clean house – done!
• Call dentist to see if there is any prep for Monday – done!
• Follow up on referral – oops
• Shopping – done!
• Clean & lube bike – nope, maybe tomorrow
• 8:00 Gershwin

SBIRs

• Work a bit on the W.E. paper – nope
• Slides for Monday! Stories are already in – done!

No ride for tomorrow yet! Put something together just in case – looks like I’m leading it

I leaned today that PDFs can be very big. Also, Chinese dictionaries

Barely made 400 miles in January!

A new global gender divide is emerging

• In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women. Tens of millions of people who occupy the same cities, workplaces, classrooms and even homes no longer see eye-to-eye.

What Prevents & What Drives Gendered Ideological Polarisation?

• Across much of the world, men and women think alike. However, in countries that are economically developed and culturally liberal, young men and women are polarising. As chronicled by John Burn-Murdoch, young women are increasingly likely to identify as ‘progressives’ and vote for leftists, while young men remain more conservative. What explains this global heterogeneity?

SBIRs

• Roll Eric’s edits into the abstract and check the character count – done. Waiting for the final ok
• Work on War Elephants paper – reasonable progress
• 9:00 standup – done
• 11:30 CSC touchpoint
• 3:30 USNA capstone meeting – cancelled

GPT Agents

• 2:00 LLM meeting
• Mention NIST talk! Done! We decided that the (resubmission?) to ArXive should have something about a call for work on HAI vulnerabilities.
• And I can have some space. Visiting next Thursday.