Had a reaction to the latest booster. I feel like an elephant sat on me

Good thread on online radicalization of a primed subject

Graphika leverages AI to reveal and study online communities. We are the best in the world at analyzing how online social networks form, evolve, and are manipulated.

SBIRs

• Twitter dev conference was canceled. Trying to get my funds back
  • Credit for SW
  • Can move the hotel into Dec/Jan
• Working on MORS paper

GPT Agents

• Half a meeting last night. Time zone issues. We might look at the changes in right-wing and left-wing interactions on Twitter pre and post-Musk
• Adding spreadsheet output to tweet counts and Wikipedia counts – Done!

Book

• Rolling in changes
• Promised to have the contract back by Friday COB

I think the quality of Twitter is dropping

SBIRs

• One of the things to add as suggestions is a model-training facility with dedicated staff. The facility exists to train up to very large models that are resilient to attack (think of a GPT-3 ensemble), and staffed with people who study how models fail. The facility also trains faulty models (mode collapse, overfitting, etc) that can be invisibly swapped in for verified (whatever that means) models so that AI pilots can learn to recognize degraded model behavior. Lots of simulators that allow users to be trained in high-stress situations to adapt to failing models.
• Since the facility trains many models, it will be possible to train meta models that can understand which hyperparameters and data sets produce effective models, and how to degrade them. This will be extremely valuable as AI/ML continue to move into more roles that were previously occupied by highly trained and/or experienced people.
• Find chess paper that shows AI/human tams out-perform AI-only

Book

• Roll in edits
• Got Terragen to make some smooth, rugged, and random terrains. I think I figured out enough, but here’s the tutorial: planetside.co.uk/terratuts-getting-started

GPT Agents

• More documentation
• Need to figure out some keywords for watching Twitter pre/post Musk
• 4:00 Meeting

Took some much needed PTO

Tasks

• 1:45 booster
• Vote!

SBIRs

• Write paper
• 9:15 standup
• 10:00 Weekly meeting

Book

• 4:00 Meeting

GPT Agents

• Documentation

Homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women in US

• Women in the US are more likely to be murdered during pregnancy or soon after childbirth than to die from the three leading obstetric causes of maternal mortality (hypertensive disorders, haemorrhage, or sepsis).1 These pregnancy associated homicides are preventable, and most are linked to the lethal combination of intimate partner violence and firearms. Preventing men’s violence towards women, including gun violence, could save the lives of hundreds of women and their unborn children in the US every year

Book

• Rolling in more edits
• “In the meantime, some great news—the project is now officially approved! I’m now just waiting for a draft of the publishing agreement, so as soon as that’s ready I will send it over.”

GPT Agents

• Finish db access and build a view to see the text and meta info
• Here’s a view that I created to link multiple rows of key/values to a root result. Really proud of this:

create or replace view test_view as
    select tt.*, ttd_k.value as keyword, ttd_c.value as created, ttd_l.value as location, ttd_p.value as probability
    FROM table_text tt
    inner join table_text_data ttd_c on tt.id = ttd_c.text_id and ttd_c.name = 'created'
    inner join table_text_data ttd_k on tt.id = ttd_k.text_id and ttd_k.name = 'keyword'
    inner join table_text_data ttd_l on tt.id = ttd_l.text_id and ttd_l.name = 'location'
    inner join table_text_data ttd_p on tt.id = ttd_p.text_id and ttd_p.name = 'probability';

SBIRs

• 9:15 standup
• 11:30 Touch point
• Work on paper. Reading the DSIAC-BCO-2022-216 report, which is a lot less than I thought it would be considering the page count, but has some good stuff in it.
• Add example paragraph to rationale section
• Add mute() method and flag – done. Also added the publish
• Make publish work with base classes

To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic

• Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

GPT Agents

• Model Explorer
  • Make it so that seed re-use happens only on new text – Done
  • Add ‘%’ to percentage formatting – Done
  • add parsing of probes to split on commas – Done
  • Get experiment loading working – Done
  • Wire up to db – Not done
    • Created table_text and table_text_data in the gpt_experiments schema
• 4:00 Meeting today – discuss AI combat paper?

Book

• Responded to Katy’s email with ideas for website
• Continue with edits

SBIRs

• Got a good first pass on Rationale
• Working on Piloting AI paper
• Found a good resource with stopkillerrobots.org

SBIRs

• Sprint planning meeting – done. Started on taks
• 3:00 pm MCWL meeting. Delayed until Friday

GPT Agents

• Finish putting in the counters and wire up the model parameters
  • Counters are working and now use regexes
  • Wired up parameters
  • Wired up “save experiment” as json. Need to load back in now
• Start documentation
• Added these and other issues to the GitHub project

{
    "probe_str": "]][[text: ",
    "description": "This is a description",
    "max_len": 128,
    "top_k": 50,
    "top_p": 0.95,
    "num_sequences": 10,
    "batch_size": 1,
    "seed_flag": false,
    "model_path": "D:/Development/models/ivermectin_paxlovid"
}

Book

• Start folding in new edits
• Write up website thoughts for Katy

SBIRs

• 9:00 Demos
• 2:00 MDA Meeting
• Wrote up request to get hours for MORS paper
• Wrote up some scenarios for Rukan

GPT Agents

• Cannot figure out how to select and highlight text so I’m dropping the HTML frame
• Adding the percentage tracking

Book

• 4:30 Meeting with Brenda

Call BSO about ticket for Saturday

Book

• Finish up Money section. Maybe introduce the idea of self-grounded spaces? Either add a section to Belief is a Place, and continue here, or introduce here and continue on with the rest of the book? Not sure

SBIRs

• Add method that handles a particular class and produces a tab in a spreadsheet
• Add overridable “publish” method in BaseController?
• Comment changes in SharedObjects and BaseController
• Document for MDA Q3
• Slides for sprint demos
• 1:00 Meeting

The Slippery Slope: How Small Ethical Transgressions Pave the Way for Larger Future Transgressions

• Many recent corporate scandals have been described as resulting from a slippery slope in which a series of small infractions gradually increased over time (e.g., McLean & Elkind, 2003). However, behavioral ethics research has rarely considered how unethical behavior unfolds over time. In this study, we draw on theories of self-regulation to examine whether individuals engage in a slippery slope of increasingly unethical behavior. First, we extend Bandura’s (1991, 1999) social-cognitive theory by demonstrating how the mechanism of moral disengagement can reduce ethicality over a series of gradually increasing indiscretions. Second, we draw from recent research connecting regulatory focus theory and behavioral ethics (Gino & Margolis, 2011) to demonstrate that inducing a prevention focus moderates this mediated relationship by reducing one’s propensity to slide down the slippery slope. We find support for the developed model across 4 multiround studies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

SBIRs

• Working on showing controller commands, states, and responses – done!
• Add SharedObject “queries” that create spreadsheets for specified (maybe an array?) types. Got the basics working. Need to break out a method to handle a type and a writer

Book

• 10:00 Meeting! We are going ahead on the book! Submission of the full book at the beginning of December, and a decision 1-2 weeks after that!
• Continue to roll in changes

GPT Agents

• Use the GoogleExplorer as a template for prompt interactions, and try some repeat interactions! Parsed output can easily be rendered as html which should be a nice touch. The text is the main piece, and the meta attributes are <ul> elements
• Add param list for GPT generation
• Add buttons to save current output to db
• Add textarea for description
• 4:00 Meeting
• Progress for today!

SBIRs

• More writing

Book

• Reply to Katy, and try to set up a meeting? Done. 10:00am tomorrow!
• Fold in more changes
• I realize that fiat money is also a self-grounded belief space. I think that means that money, organized religion, and constitutional governments are all related. They are also distinctly different from ungrounded belief spaces. Added a note to the text

Call BSO about parking

scikit-learn and Hugging Face join forces

• “Skops” is the name of the framework being actively developed as the link between the scikit-learn and the Hugging Face ecosystems. With Skops, we hope to facilitate essential workflows:
  • The ability to push scikit-learn models on the Hugging Face Hub
  • The possibility to try out models directly in the browser
  • The automatic creation of model cards, to improve model documentation and understanding
  • The ability to collaborate with others on machine learning projects

My first hearing of the phrase “Counter Autonomy”

GPT Agents

• Stub out ModelExplorer – off to a good start. The App is running, and I’m working out how to parse responses.
• Start documentation of EmbeddingExplorer

SBIRs

• 9:15 Standup, then RCS meeting with Rukan
• Writing for the rest of the day

Book

• I got the proposal reviews back!

• Fold edits in
• Maybe continue on religion chapter? May not have time

Call BSO about parking

How to construct a Nature summary paragraph

Book

• Started to poke at the outlines of a religion chapter
• 4:00 Meeting with Brenda

SBIRs

• Working on 3D viz
• 1:00 LLM Meeting with Isaac and Aaron
• 2:00 MDA meeting

GPT Agents

• Stub out ModelExplorer. Off to a good start. The app framework is up, loading the model and running prompts. Working out how to split the output for analysis
• Start documentation of EmbeddingExplorer

This is not good

I track my temperature every morning, along with weight and blood pressure. What can I say? I like to record data. Anyway, I came down with Covid after I came back from Spain in July, got Paxlovid and (motly) recovered in about two weeks. I still had a lingering cough, which is now completely gon. Looking back over the data, my temperature was slightly raised for two months. Not exactly Long Covid, but this thing took a looooong time to shake.

SBIRs

• 9:00 Meeting with Rukan to go over EntityData
• Work with Aaron on paper?
• Copy over the AI & Weapons paper to Overleaf for updating – done. It turns out that I don’t “own” the paper on Arxiv – Aaron Massey does. Downloaded final from Arxiv and uploaded to Overleaf

GPT Agents

• Added twitter query options to TweetDownloader and a way to disable writes to the db for debugging. I’m afraid to test it given that it’s Friday and all
• Fix excluded clusters – I think it’s backwards
• Not sure if I want to build an App to interact with the model. I think so? If only for quick data gathering
  • Find and load a model
  • Calculate percentages
  • Set prompts, generate text, get embeddings and cluster
  • Save good results to db?

7:00am Transformers talk

7:00pm Suz’s reading!

SBIRs

• Had a good chat with Rukan about kernel methods. Looking at ways to produce information to split out features that the system struggles to learn so that they can be handled differently. This led to thinking about adding that information in as a feature and then testing the reconstruction of the feature (e.g. std dev) vs the calculation based on the output as the loss function.
• Talked to Aaron to work out the experiment design
• Had to do my MORS expenses AGAIN
• 9:15 standup
• 11:30 touch point
• Get 3D viz working, and start on texture import and using lat/long. It looks like I can use the utm package. There are pieces missing from the directory that I don’t want to chase. Made a simpler viztest directory

GPT Agents

• The computational sociology group had a meeting again! Went over stuff, and I managed to break the Embedding explorter by removing tweet_row from the view. It should be this:

• That’s working now
• Getting more embeddings and clusters
• Struggled a bit with getting the files to save correctly
• Generating a model!

Book

• Continue to roll in changes – caught up!