scottshambaugh
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Comment · 4 months ago
I’ll shill a library I wrote to make wigglegrams & stereograms in matplotlib - I think pseudo-3D visualization is super underrated as a technique to understand data!
mpl_stereo: https://github.com/scottshambaugh/mpl_stereo
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks for sharing! My background is in control theory, and I think the links between it and game theory and dynamical systems in general are super fruitful but woefully underexplored. Writing this was a good excuse to brush up on my linear algebra basics again.
Comment · 5 months ago
I had the computer do it for me :)
Really though, the way to do this is to represent each game as a payout matrix A, which for this category of game will be skew-symmetric with -1/0/+1 entries. Then since this is a symmetric zero-sum game, you find the null space of that matrix, impose the constraint that probabilities must sum to 1 and individually be >= 0, and that gives you the endpoints of the Nash Equilibria. The optimal strategies (could be one unique one for odd n!) lie on the convex hull of those points.
Comment · 8 months ago
I wasn't actually expecting someone to come forward at this point, and I'm glad they did. It finally puts a coda on this crazy week.
This situation has completely upended my life. Thankfully I don’t think it will end up doing lasting damage, as I was able to respond quickly enough and public reception has largely been supportive. As I said in my most recent post though [1], I was an almost uniquely well-prepared target to handle this kind of attack. Most other people would have had their lives devastated. And if it makes me a target for copycats then it still might for me. We’ll see.
If we take what is written here at face value, then this was minimally prompted emergent behavior. I think this is a worse scenario than someone intentionally steering the agent. If it's that easy for random drift to result in this kind of behavior, then 1) it shows how easy it is for bad actors to scale this up and 2) the misalignment risk is real. I asked in the comments to clarify what bits specifically the SOUL.md started with.
I also asked for the bot activity on github to be stopped. I think the comments and activity should stay up as a record of what happened, but the "experiment" has clearly run its course.
[1] https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
Comment · 8 months ago
I haven't been responding to comments since the volume is way too high, but have read most of them. I'm really glad this is resonating with people and generating a lot of discourse - what happened to me gets to the heart of a lot of the big questions about the AI world we are birthing and these discussions are long past due.
There are new developments since yesterday and I have responses to some of the general themes in a new post.
Post: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949
Comment · 8 months ago
Thank you for the support all. This incident doesn't bother me personally, but I think is extremely concerning for the future. The issue here is much bigger than open source maintenance, and I wrote about my experience in more detail here.
Post: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729
Comment · 11 months ago
Thanks for adding it! I think anaglyphs are super underused in 3D visualization. The grid lines look pretty good in 3D but the orbits themselves aren't as sharp - it might be the coloring or it might be that the angular distance between the eye views is too large.
There's some math at the bottom of my matplotlib extension for anaglyphs if you want to play around: https://github.com/scottshambaugh/mpl_stereo