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  1. May 2023
    1. still relies on fictional examples

      I don't think this is particularly true.

      I think a lot of the debate about AI is infused with sociological concepts that identify AI with "capitalism" or other social groups or forces.

    2. Rather than understanding the core or definition of these tools, we trade examples.

      The core definition may well be irrelevant from a social level and then comparisons to sociological concepts (e.g. secretary) might be more helpful

  2. Apr 2023
    1. where we prompt LLMs to find problems

      Obvious layers of meta:

      Reflexion:

      Input -> output Think about process Feed output back in

      Could we use this as training to feed back into the model

  3. Mar 2023
    1. A main limitation of this work is that interac-tive feedback with a computationally expensivemodel such as ChatGPT can significantly slowdown the user experience

      Might be a concern for us

    2. ChatGPT by 32.3% inUsefulness (measuring the groundedness or hal-lucination of model responses) and 12.9% in Hu-manness (measuring the fluency and informative-ness of model responses

      This is something we could do potentially with a knowledge base

    3. LLM-AUGMENTER then verifies thecandidate response e.g., by checking whether ithallucinates evidence. If so, LLM-AUGMENTERgenerates a feedback message

      Interesting - limiting the model to pure reason

  4. Jan 2023
    1. Reinforcement learning (RL).

      The "action" is the output from the model.

      The point of the reinforcement learning is that we add scores (from out model) to the outtput.

      i wonder if this is similar to some of the "beauty" metrics in gpt-3

    2. alignment tax”

      still getting triggered by people calling sanitizing the model "alignment".

      Though, given what happened to galactica versus chatgpt, which were prettty similar efforts, perhaps sanitising for groups that moan is necessary.

    3. not being biased, toxic, or otherwise harmful.

      These are frequently not the users intention, but rather than the intention of certain groups within society, society as a whole, governments, or the providers of models.

  5. Sep 2022
  6. Apr 2021
  7. Mar 2020
    1. , you might be able to appeal against (‘challenge’) paying the fine

      No, you don't challenge the fixed penalty notice. You decline to accept the issuers officer to dispense liability.

    2. committed

      You are accused of an offence, you have only commited a crime once you are prosecuted. Agreeing to paying a FPN if effectively buying immunity to prosecution of an offence.

    1. They tell a story of attempts to assert, or reclaim, masculine power and control – be that against women, other men, children, animals, the environment…even against ourselves, in terms of the range of self-destructive behaviours that our inability to meet unattainable standards of masculinity can feed into.

      :( that's a fairly densely packed set of assertions.

    1. overlapping with white supremacists, incels and the far right, and embodied in the person of Jordan Peterson.

      "lol". Sorry annottions should have factual content.

      feminism overlaps with "radical anarchism" and communism and misandry.

      This is a lazy and unfactual attempt to correlate a lot of thigns together.

    2. 90% of the population in 75 countries is biased against women

      Biased in favour you mean (see the women are wonderful effect).

      But fine, I'll accept that there are some gender stereotypes that negatively effect women.

    1. I’m not going to help you if you speak to me like that. It’s not acceptable
      • You don't get to decide what is an isn't acceptable
      • You have a job to do, and responsibilities that come with the job you are not "personally helping me"
      • You don't get to decide who you do and don't help
    1. This makes me so angry. We patients are given constant excuses as to why it isn’t happening. But we know we would get the right treatment if we were younger. Fifty years on from when I lay in that ghastly ward watching old women lie untreated until they died, I see the same prejudice and ageism in the health system today.

      So it seems quite straightforward that better practice might be involved for this disease. I'm unclear it is prejudice.

    2. You had to shout if you wanted a nurse; the nurses came intermittently and, when they did, regularly complained that the women were disturbing them.

      Pretty much still the same !

    1. The vast majority of patients and callers treat our staff with the utmost respect, but a small minority do not

      It is not the public responsibility to treat you with respect. It is there responsibilty to act within the law, and do what they think is moral

    2. Today marks the first ever ‘Awesome Movement Day’ to thank emergency service staff for the job they do and encourage others to show their appreciation in simple ways

      This is unrelated to the question of abuse.

    3. Every time a crew is attacked, they have to come off the streets either for treatment or to provide statements to police

      You wrap yourself in the suffering of others and use it to make people give you things.

  8. Feb 2020
    1. Rather than requiring the removal of specific pieces of legal content,

      This doesn't necessarily make things better. It just makes the censorship diffuse and difficult to define.

    2. These figures are higher than corresponding statistics for ‘offline’ bullying, indicating the increased potential for harm.

      Those who are exposed to cyberbullying may be predisposed to depression.

    3. Two thirds of adults in the UK are concerned about content online, and close to half say that they have seen hateful content in the past year

      Claim to democratic authority.

    4. we must confront the online threats and harms it can propagate, and protect those who are vulnerable to them.

      This is certainly true, but it should be noted that preventing harms oiuld also prevent harnessing of the internet's advantages.

    5. This is an exciting and unprecedented age of digital opportunity, and this government is committed to unleashing the full power of this country’s first-class technology and boosting our standing in the world.

      Values define action. Here we define a value of technology boosting "standing in the world"

    1. One additional woman on a local council resulted in a 40% expansion of public childcare in their district

      Is that a good thing? Your statement is that women advocate for their own needs.

    1. If they only blame others for the problem and never admit their own faults, you have a red flag that they might do this at your company later on.

      A bunch of lazy idiots who thing they understand anything express random prejudice to decide who is toxic or not. Repeating self-help drivel.

      Did you know there can be such a thing as too much agency?

    2. negative energy

      I mean... some negativity isn't necessarily a bad thing. I guess lack of agency is perhaps a bad thing, but I think fear of bad things is potentially a good thing.

    1. Choose modules that tell the story of the system and contain a cohesive set of concepts.

      Okay. This is what the other person was getting at. Your services and modules can be defined within a high level domain language.

    2. Modules

      Ugh. This stuff is getting odd. The idea is that we pull concepts from programming and systems design up into our modelliong language. But this is done at a high level, this then influences how the model itself is designed so that it more programmable.

    3. at the value object as immutable.

      Okay... that is a weird idea.

      One is partitioning objects into those that persist for a period of time (identity) and those that can change (value objects) and demanding that those things that can change be immutable.

    4. e domain objects, free of the responsibility of displaying themselves, storing themselves, managing application tasks, and so forth, can be focused on expressing the domain model. T

      This is language driven development - a concept that comes up in lisp.

      I think it also there is rubi metaprogaraming.

    5. When the domain-­‐related code is diffused through such a large amount of other code, it becomes extremely difficult to see and to reason about.

      Hmm.... language indicates models, indicates common functionality.

      Can you actually apply this in practice without your head exploding. I guess it can influence what yuo are thinking and be part of your role.

    6. hen refactor the code, renaming classes, methods, and modules to conform to the new model.

      That is pretty extreme...

      "Rewrite all literature and papers in line with new language". I guess that does happen in the form of textbooks.

    7. Commit theteam to exercising that language relentlessly in all communication within the team and in the code.

      :S :( :/ "think this way".

      I mean... I have no issue with prcise language and an attempt ot use precise language. And constructing glossaries can be useful.

    8. The terminology of day-­‐to-­‐day discussions is disconnected from the terminology embedded in the code

      This is not just about terminology - it is about the logic and metaphors that come along with this terminology, whether these metaphors are accurate, what they imply.

    9. Explore modelsin a creative collaboration of domain practitioners and software practitioners

      it is important that programmers programming reflects the real world - so the input of domain practictioners is important.

    10. A sphere of knowledge,

      knowledge is irrelevant from a design perspective. Unless it creates expectations of how thhings should be organized or what things mean in the mind the the user or the programmer.

      Programming is not a sociological act, and shouldn't necessarily be influenced by sociological ideas - unless these exist in the people who interact wit the code

    1. abuse

      Care should be taken in defining abuse. Factors that might be involved:

      • Demeaning behaviouir towards patients that cause a response, which may not be that "abusive" but is interpreted as abuse
    1. not fair

      So, let's suppose someone has killed your mother and left you parallized and avoids prosecution by lying, and everyone at the trial feels sympathy for them.

      Are you meant to not think things are fnot unfair?

    2. You can control your anger, and you have a responsibility to do so

      Indeed. It should be noted that excessive "control" of anger can be counterproductive however. And the focus solely on control here is therefore problematic.

    3. However, it can be a problem if you find it difficult to keep it under control.

      It can also be a sign that you are too angry due to underlying issues such as abuse by organization, individuals, lack of assertiveness, ideological issues etc.

    1. Braverman has also sparked controversy in legal circles. She has called for the UK to “take back control, not just from the EU but from the judiciary”, challenged the Human Rights Act, and complained that “judicial review has exploded since the 1960s”.

      Hmm... what is this article for? It does seem rather odd to include this detail in an article.

    1. It was not the first time Davies has intervened in parliamentary proceedings with the clear purpose of derailing measures intended to tackle violence against women and girls

      I do not believet hisis true.

    1. sex and health

      They also focus on the responsibility of men for women.

      When I looked the first page on their ethics page was:

      " Acknowledging (White Heterosexual Able-Bodied Male) Privilege Maybe it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility."

    1. But under no circumstances should men have any legal rights over women’s pregnancies.

      Well... the right that people talk about is the right to have no responsibility for the resultant child. I'm not sure I approve of this.

    1. Men have the right to avoid conceiving unplanned pregnancies either by choosing not to have sex or to use condom

      It should be noted this is less than the corresponding rights that women have: women can have abortions.

    1. The Act has been twisted, with ‘rights’ increasingly derided as foreign impositions, serving only criminals and terrorists.

      I suspect the issue might be that the law gets interpreted in another country.

    1. The court must first decide whether the case falls under the ‘careless’ category or whether it is serious enough to be considered ‘dangerous

      This might be decided by the CPS rather than the court.

    1. Remind the employee of their contractual obligations.

      Threatening people can be a bad way of making people do things.

      You may well be asking someone to write you a bad review by doing this.

    1. signs of a man child.

      Signs of people you don't like. Why are these signs so important?

      Are you just telling people not to do things. Perhaps you are just thinking about something you don't like.

      Do you have alternative behaviour? Are you defining a continuum.

    1. One of the most important aspects of alignment is that everyone knows their place within their team, and that teams know their place within the whole organisation.

      This is negotiated.

    2. Rewarding tasks that have a clear impact on organisational goals is a great way to reinforce the message that your employees are contributing to the success of the whole business

      "Here have a lolly"

    3. At its most basic level, an aligned organisation is one where everyone is on the same page

      But everyone isn't on the same page, and can't be on the same page. I mean... they can understand what everything is for etc.

    1. And learning to code, no matter how good they get at it, won’t gain them entrance to a club run by people who don’t look like them.

      I don't believe it. Look at medicine, look at dentisry look, look at law.

    2. Front-end developing is a feminizing subfield rather than a masculinizing one.

      So... why don't I care about front-end development. I guess I think of it as easy, and boring, and churny, and filled with opinion, and less truth, and ancilliary, and not core etc etc.

    3. And it emerged in order to push women out of programming as men moved into what had originally been female jobs.

      Come one. Is that actually what happened? Or was there growth with most of the growht being male

    4. nothing on a computer is any more or less logical than anything else

      That is wrong.

      It depends what you mean by logical. Parts of logic:

      • talking to people
      • The rigidity of what you are coding
      • The degree to which something is to do with psychology
    5. the technology industry enforces a distinct gender hierarchy between front-end and back-end development

      "enforces" who is the technology industry, who is doing the enforcing.

    1. In other words, the woman saw a personal attack where there wasn’t one and decided to remind the panellists that as a member of the white majority she ultimately has their fate in her hands.

      Seems accurate. Of course... there the subtly here comes down to the degree to which you see "white people" as a homogenous group that has power and agency.