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Jacob Kelter
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 11d
Huge congratulations to the creator of #NetLogo and my PhD advisor, Uri Wilensky, on winning the prestigious Yidan Prize for Education Research!

#yidanprize
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NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social · 11d
We are incredibly excited to announce that Uri Wilensky, the founder of #NetLogo, has been awarded the prestigious Yidan Prize for Educational Research!

yidanprize.org/laureates/ur...
Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation. Through its prize and network of changemakers, it supports ideas and practices in education — specifically, ones with the power to posi...
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 19d
Here's my short summary: bsky.app/profile/jzke...
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 19d
My understanding of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies":
1. AI built on current techniques will have alien values
2. A superintelligence will be able to steer the world to realize its values
3. By default, alien values being maximized → humanity dies
4. Therefore, IABIED (book's title)
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 19d
A key point of the book: even if you disagree with (1), it's irresponsible to race ahead with AI unless you can confidently show that AI *won't* have alien values. If it *might* have human-aligned values, that doesn't justify racing ahead.
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 19d
I think the only one of these that can plausibly be argued with is (1), and that is where most of the reasoned debate is happening.
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 19d
My understanding of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies":
1. AI built on current techniques will have alien values
2. A superintelligence will be able to steer the world to realize its values
3. By default, alien values being maximized → humanity dies
4. Therefore, IABIED (book's title)
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 25d
Definitely one of the coolest models I've seen a while!
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NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social · 25d
New in NetLogo 7: a Chladni Plate model you can run in your browser.

Emergent patterns of sand dancing on sound waves! (explanation below 👇)

Play with it here and share your favorite pattern!
netlogoweb.org/launch#https...

#NetLogo #Science #Waves #Emergence #ABM
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NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social · 25d
New in NetLogo 7: a Chladni Plate model you can run in your browser.

Emergent patterns of sand dancing on sound waves! (explanation below 👇)

Play with it here and share your favorite pattern!
netlogoweb.org/launch#https...

#NetLogo #Science #Waves #Emergence #ABM
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · 25d
Screen shot from the Chladni Plate NetLogo model
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NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social · Sep 10
NetLogo 7 is here!!

✨New modern UI with dark mode
🔧Performance improvements & new features

👉Download: www.netlogo.org/download
📣 Full announcement: www.netlogo.org/announcements/

#NetLogo #AgentBasedModeling #ABM #ComplexSystems
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Jacob Kelter @jzkelter.bsky.social · Aug 15
Very cool model! I'm implementing a #NetLogo version, and I have a question: is there a real distinction between h_in vs h_out and γ_in vs γ_out, or could there just be 4 arbitrary traits? Since any link can be harmful or helpful based on harm/help ratio, the traits seem arbitrary.
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