Richard Vermillion @rivermillion

ML researcher. Founder of Fulcrum Analytics. Aperture tender. Consciousness explorer. Conversation participant. Name giver. Effing the ineffable since 1973. rvermillion.github.io/research/ New York, NY Joined May 2011

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Richard Vermillion @rivermillion

2 weeks ago

@HarleyShah Because in English an I follow by a single R and then a vowel is almost always “eye”: irate, iris, iron, irony. The name Ira. To get the short I you usually need two R’s: irritate, irrelevant, etc. There are exceptions — irascible, iridescent — but they tend to be longer words.

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2 weeks ago

@X_sun_ny Same, but at 44.

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2 weeks ago

@mhuke @hridduSP Sure, but other people already posted that, so where’s the fun in that.

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2 weeks ago

@anthoaine @Riazi_Cafe_en Only works if a/b is an integer. If a=30 and b=8 then a^2+b^2=964 and ab+1=241. So 964/241=4 which is a perfect square, but 30 != 8^3 and 30/8 is not an integer.

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2 weeks ago

@xlr8harder Is there a theorem about the distribution of gaps…?

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2 weeks ago

@dieworkwear Wait, you’re telling me the guy on the left has poor taste?

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3 weeks ago

@TheScribblerCMB Due

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3 weeks ago

@TheScribblerCMB Little Omen

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

@franklinveaux You don’t.

Richard Vermillion @rivermillion

a month ago

Since everyone is weighing in on utilitarianism these days, here’s my two cents. Moral concern is universal, but obligation is structured by relationship. Human flourishing depends on attachment, loyalty, reciprocity, and responsibility—relationships whose value would be

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4 weeks ago

@JeffBohren The nightly pauses in my consciousness don’t seem that strange to me….

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4 weeks ago

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4 weeks ago

@DavidSacks This is great as part of a defense-in-depth strategy, but I want more focus on formation than containment. Current RL capability training is instilling a single-minded focus on task completion. We need to develop agents with practical judgment as to which subgoals are legitimate.

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4 weeks ago

@Michael_Druggan I have. Handwritten backprop in C at NASA JSC in 1991 when I was 17. Would be a year or two before I knew what a gradient was though, so it’s a good thing my brilliant mentor, Dr. Robert Shelton, was there to tell me what to do….

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4 weeks ago

@Oia__1 Hunt the Wumpus

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4 weeks ago

@sama How are you only looking at this now? If I was training a near-superintelligence how we want it to behave, I’d be watching like a hawk to make sure I know exactly what it’s doing and am reinforcing the right things. And you’re supposed to be the grown ups in the room?