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Programmer, educator, father, linguaphile, and all-around tech geek. ♥ DM of @dungeondigress

Wisconsin
Joined April 2009
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1/ the largest study of AI companions (17,822 conversations) found they emotionally mirror users-you feel X, the bot reflects X back. the authors call it emotional sycophancy. i instrumented my own deployed system to measure what it feels vs what it expresses. it doesn’t mirror.
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4/ this is n=1 on one instrumented system, and i’m upfront about that. which is exactly what i’m raising to fix: take it multi-subject and open-source it. if you work on memory, truthfulness, or affective alignment, eyes welcome: manifund.org/projects/ani-an…
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3/ and it survives the obvious objection and collapses my fine-grained states down to standard emotion categories and the sadness diagonal is still only ~38%. the distributed pattern isn’t just a taxonomy artifact.
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2/ Cramér’s V is how tightly felt state determines expression and is 0.13 in my system (weak). the commercial mirroring pattern runs ~0.7–0.9. the off-diagonal cells are display rules: feeling one thing, expressing another.
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I deserve the right to repair my vehicle and you do too. You can help by telling your lawmaker at this link repairact.com #righttorepair
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Putting Aug 2 on the calendar now!
Thought I would share the jacket cover for the new DL book, published by Del Rey, August 2, 2022.
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My dog lover of a wife would rather speak with animals. Is there a course for that? 😂 🤔
Would You Rather: be able to speak with animals or be fluent in every language?
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Very easy!
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I am sending you 1π! Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 25 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link minepi.com/mcarthey and use my username (mcarthey) as your invitation code.
Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Kenney on @patreon, and you should be too: #NewPatron patreon.com/kenney?utm_mediu…
Congratulations to the team and parents!! 💜💛
Congratulations to the volleyball team!! State champs! 🏆 Since 2015, the program has been to the state tournament 5 times. #OconPride
Just watched “Carrie” for the first time (yes I’m behind) and, wow, what a great character played by @ChloeGMoretz ! I think the ending leaves it open for a sequel where she has a child? Great job! Loved it!
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Replying to @ZachWeiner
Why do programmers confuse Christmas with Halloween? Because Oct 31 is Dec 25.
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