Phil 4.7.2025

Chart for the VIX “Fear Index” showing the last three “once in a lifetime” financial crisis’

I learned this yesterday:  Bonapartism is the term is more generally used for political movements that advocate for an authoritarian centralised state, with a strongman and charismatic leader, support for the military, and conservatism.

The reality, reported or otherwise, is that large language models are no longer living up to expectations, and its purveyors appear to be making dodgy choices to keep that fact from becoming obvious.

P33

  • Add a description of explore/exploit, and how it is a dilemma for every living thing. Kauffman and Martindale describe the strategies that human beings have developed to apply explore/exploit to culture
  • Add something to the end that the role of good government is to take the best from explore and exploit, without causing convulsive, destructive change if possible.

SBIRs

  • Helped Ron get his papers
  • Tried to clean up all the ESDT paper cruft.
  • 11:00 RTAT prep meeting – done
  • 11:30 Meeting with John. Fixed all the basic bugs, I think?
  • AI TTRP meeting. Just some preliminary stuff Maybe take a course from MORS?
  • Sizing and timing?
  • KA Book while waiting – good progress