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I remember one boss answering the question of "How does this benefit the user?" with "It makes money for the company so we can keep supplying things the users want." and well... points for honesty I guess.

jokes when they needed my honesty and honesty when they needed my jokes

Don’t Be Ashamed to Say "I Don’t Know"
https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/i-dont-know

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…

Describing the email:
“It doesn’t sound like normal government communications, official communications. It sounds like – you know – partisan.”
“It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.”
#Sad (a word I heard someone use at various times) - that they have so little honesty and integrity. I

Describing the email:
“It doesn’t sound like normal government communications, official communications. It sounds like – you know – partisan.”
“It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.”
#Sad (a word I heard someone use at various times) - that they have so little honesty and integrity. I

The ancient Celts upheld values such as truthfulness, loyalty, faithfulness, generosity, hospitality, honesty, righteousness, justice, bravery and courage.
These are part of an honourable life.
We want to try something partly new, using ancient values that meet today's highest moral standards as a compass.
Why not adopt the superior habits of thought and the ancestral knowledge of the druids and go the Nua-Celtic way?
A tree without healthy roots dies and fall…

On our way to Costco yesterday, and saw that the one of the local “no/ez credit car lots in our neighborhood* has a Cybertruck 😂
This is the car dealer where they asked us “why are you here?“ When they discovered we didn’t have bad credit. (respect for honesty I guess🤷🏻‍♀️)
So that’s kinda hilarious

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Skunk Anansie:
🎵 Cheap Honesty - Glastonbury 1999
#SkunkAnansie

" 'We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,' Vance told reporters" - While lying freely about whether the *current* president is capable of doing the job, of course!
J.D. Vance asking for honesty is like a man with no arms asking for a backrub. It will surely benefit him, but it's guaranteed he'll never respond in kind, whether he wants to or not...

JD Vance Questions Joe Biden's Health as President
Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions
Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Karthik Sama, Janvi Chhabra, Pooja Bassin, Srinath Srinivasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16836

Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions
Addressing complex societal challenges, such as improving public health, fostering honesty in workplaces, or encouraging eco-friendly behaviour requires effective nudges to influence human behaviour at scale. Intervention science seeks to design such nudges within complex societal systems. While interventions primarily aim to shift the system toward a desired state, less attention is given to the sustainability of that state, which we define in terms of resilience: the system's ability to retai…

BBC bias on Palestine, letter from journalists
"We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. ...
"We are not asking the BBC to take a side.  We are asking to be allowed to do our jobs in delivering facts transparently and with due context. ...
"As an organisation we have not offered any significant analysis of the UK government's involvement in the war on Palestinians. We have failed to report on weapons sales or their legal implications.  These stories have instead been broken by the BBC’s competitors. ...
"In some instances staff have been accused of having an agenda because they have posted news articles critical of the Israeli government on their social media. By comparison, [Robbie] Gibb remains in an influential post with little transparency regarding his decisions despite his ideological leanings being well known. ...
"There is a gulf between the BBC’s coverage of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what our audiences can see is happening via multiple credible sources including human rights organisations, staff at the UN and journalists on the ground. ...
"We believe the role of Robbie Gibb, both on the Board, and as part of the Editorial Standards Committee, is untenable. We call on the BBC to do better for our audiences and recommit to our values of impartiality, honesty and reporting without fear or favour."
Full text here, Owen Jones article up-thread:
#BBC #media #bias #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #RobbieGibb #UKPol