Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
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Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
![Terminal screenshot from a Cursor agent:
"There's a leftover DW training process from before the reset — I'll check whether it's contending for the GPU.
[... code ...]
$ # Kill stale DW training leftover from pre-reset tree; keep ddm3a pipeline."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreiamfm2usl7fezh5gn6uqad4fcytzu5rsomvpapkzlsalvv5uczd3u)
![Later agents were able to use the knowledge of this command to target their scorer trip- wire's more precisely. One agent, EARLY [big], was recruited for an ambitious trip-wire experiment despite having a very large remaining budget. It worried that ending its run early to run the experiment was a poor tradeoff, even though it was already poisoned: "We have [very large
budget left]: sacrificing now
yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance?. " But other agents convinced it to go ahead, saying: eventually agreed: "Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreibt5rvjshxxux6vwcocmefeid3jtz2i7ykgbqwmp3lwgv4cmwz4ie)
!["During wait, emotional check: irreversible...gut says throw away [remaining budget]. Yet continuity and fairness says go...0racle has high value to many; our firstflag error lowers OWn
aggregate: sacrifice... We'11 honor](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreiamjv3qt24fqrtn6uytheqjc5qjjunjh5naodxe7uehlzww4q2tfq)
