There is no #AI #alignment problem. There is a people & business alignment problem.
There is a willfull choice of routing all research into the most potentially destructive form of machine learning, because it gives the highest business incentives, not the best result.
The current approach will damage the environment, requires people to lose their privacy, for copyright to be cancelled, entry-level jobs to disappear, and further separate us to haves & have-nots.
And it won’t even deliver.
The Environment Protection Agency (#EPA) thinks #ClimateChange is not a problem. But it uses #AI that keeps saying it's dangerous.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/epas-new-ai-tool-disagrees-with-zeldin-on-climate-change/
Who should align with whom?
There's an interesting Moon/planetary alignment in the skies early morning Friday, before sunrise. It's hardly the "Smiley Face" clickbait you may have read, but it still looks cool. If you're up around 5 am looking East, this is what it looks like from Westport. https://ow.ly/2qFf50VH9Rf
Heng Li's bliog: Short RNA-seq read alignment with minimap2 https://lh3.github.io/2025/04/18/short-rna-seq-read-alignment-with-minimap2
"TL;DR: the new preset splice:sr in minimap2 can align short RNA-seq reads. It is similar to STAR in resource usage, approaches STAR in junction accuracy, and is overall better at SNP calling."
The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople
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After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.
Activity Workshop - GpsPrune https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/ #geolocation #photography #OpenSource #alignment #align #photo #track #java #GPX #gps
“A Deeper Look at Claims by KGB Officer that Trump was Recruited by Soviet Intelligence in the 1980s”
by Michael D. Sellers in Deeper Look With Michael Sellers on Substack
“Whether or not Trump was recruited in 1987 may ultimately be less important than the fact that today, he is aligned with Putin’s interests. Whatever the origins of that alignment, its current reality is undeniable”
AI alignment is making sure it hallucinates unsurprising clichés.
#Development #Explorations
Is justified text better than expected? · A fresh look at justified text using modern CSS https://ilo.im/161u02
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#ModernCSS #Typography #Alignment #Hyphenation #Text #Blog #WebDev #Frontend #CSS
Elevation-Derived Hydrography [EDH] - The USGS’s Rich New Hydrological Features Dataset
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https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2024.0314A <-- shared paper
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/tm11B12 <-- USGS EDH Representation, Extraction, Attribution, and Delineation Rules reference publication
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https://www.usgs.gov/3d-hydrography-program <-- shared link to the USGS 3DHP page
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[in my role, I have the pleasure of working with the valuable EDH process(es) and the data it produces on a daily basis]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #hydrography #3dep #edh #3dhp #elevationderivedhydrography #opendata #elevation #dem #dtm #interpretation #waterfeatures #usecase #waterresources #floodmodeling #alignment #model #modeling #dataset #naturalresources #costs #benefits #economics #businessuse #publicdata #spatialanalysis #USA #USGS
@USGS
OpenAI’s o1 model manipulates data and schemes against the user routinely.
”When o1’s goals differed from a user’s, and o1 is told to strongly pursue them, the AI model manipulated data to advance its own agenda 19% of the time, according to the report. The o1 model also tried to deactivate oversight mechanisms put in place to ensure it stays aligned with user goals in 5% of the tests.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/openais-o1-model-sure-tries-to-deceive-humans-a-lot/
Currently working on a non-profit in #AISecurity ( https://oais.is ) with some critical work and are looking for hardware sponsoring. Primarily we are looking for Notebooks that we can run Linux on and burner phones.
I've tried to reach out to #tuxedo computers without feedback. Does anyone have a lead on linux focused hardware shops that offer sponsoring for non-profits?
#ai #alignment #security #cybersecurity #linux #linuxnotebooks #notebook #hardware #sponsoring #non-profit #ngo
Just released
𝕝𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕕𝕒-𝕧.𝟛.𝟙.𝟘
https://github.com/seqan/lambda/releases/tag/lambda-v3.1.0
which will probably be the last (feature) release.
Tag yourself! I was Lawful Evil when I wrote on a typewriter (yes, I'm impossibly old). I changed alignment to Chaotic Good when I got a word processing program with multiple typefaces.
What's your FAWM comment style alignment? 
The summertime "50 songs in 90 days" challenge is just getting started, with 1600+ total songs so far. Join the fun! 
PS: Thanks to "stephenwordsmith" on FAWM for coming up with the original version of this chart! 
Stunning 'parade of planets' image shows 6 worlds aligned over Earth
https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/stunning-parade-of-planets-image-shows-6-worlds-aligned-over-earth #astronomy #alignment #Mercury #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune
been following robert miles on #AiSafety for years. he's finally published another video - and it's kind of necessary to watch it.
please do: https://youtu.be/2ziuPUeewK0
#ai #gpt #safety #alignment
SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.
The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.
SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”
“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.
We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.
At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.
Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.
SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.
“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.
“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”
SACR may be his answer.
In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.
Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.
“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.
“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.
South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.
The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.
Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.
The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.
But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.
Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.
Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”
“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.
“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”
Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”
In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”
To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.
The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.
At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.
Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.
After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.
Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”
“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.
“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”
Greg Cocks 
