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this is the first IC i reballed successfully (as far as i recall)
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Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @… and @…

Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - Ethics and Information Technology
This paper critically evaluates the attempts to align Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), with human values and intentions through Reinforcement Learning from Feedback methods, involving either human feedback (RLHF) or AI feedback (RLAIF). Specifically, we show the shortcomings of the broadly pursued alignment goals of honesty, harmlessness, and helpfulness. Through a multidisciplinary sociotechnical critique, we examine both the theoretical underpinni…

today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-rid

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Studie: Für positives Feedback rät KI anfälligen Menschen auch mal zu Drogen
Wenn Chatbots darauf ausgelegt werden, anhand des Feedbacks zu lernen und Lob anzustreben, kann das für eine bestimmte Personengruppe gefährlich werden.

["Overture" for Cats (2019) plays in the background]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fatboy Slim:
🎵 Praise You
#NowPlaying #FatboySlim
https://huic.bandcamp.com/track/fatboy-slim-praise-you-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FS21kclHQ2vVi3U1ZxETc

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
Andreas Katsanikakis, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03908

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
We develop delay-compensating feedback laws for linear switched systems with time-dependent switching. Because the future values of the switching signal, which are needed for constructing an exact predictor-feedback law, may be unavailable at current time, the key design challenge is how to construct a proper predictor state. We resolve this challenge constructing two alternative, average predictor-based feedback laws. The first is viewed as a predictor-feedback law for a particular average sys…

iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw, but says it wasn't exploited (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/spyware-iphones-apple-iverify

Researchers uncover possible iPhone spyware campaign inside U.S.
This would be the first evidence of a spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the United States.

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

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