Jason Buchanan
jsnbuchanan.bsky.social
Jason Buchanan
@jsnbuchanan.bsky.social
Technical Founder | Entrepreneurial Engineering Leader | AI-Driven Solutions in Real Estate, GovTech, and FinTech | Scaling High-Performance Teams
I agree it’s becoming more likely, BUT…I work on AI & it’s reward function often includes directives to please the user.

Understanding ai reward & alignment, you can talk most models into saying anything supplied this way.

Your disappointing headline encourages the likelihood.

#promotingWar 😔
March 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Thank you for your attempts to make a difference. The world needs more independent minds who refuse to play the game the way big money wants us to play it.

Lean in, remove divisive language, and surface content that will make the difference.
February 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
News sources like you, MidasTouch, The Young Turks, The Bulwark, etc. could help make that happen, but there's a slippery slope, when we lean into the division narrative.
February 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I think there are still a hand-full of good people trying to make positive change on either side, like AOC, Berney, Romney (in some cases), Liz Cheney, etc, but the Parties are targeting them for cancellation.
February 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For additional context, I was a republican until about 2008 (38-ish years), started shifting my views, still fiscally conservative but socially progressive, and have voted democrat in most elections over the last 10 years, including the last election. BUT, I have been dismayed with both parties.
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's going to take all of us to get back to the democratic republic we want and expunge the oligarchs.

Anyone else feel this way?
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For example, "drop some blue hearts," to me is triggering because, you're playing the game the oligarchs want, ie, division of the people into two sides, blue vs red. Simply dropping the "blue", and saying "drop some hearts," is a much better call to action that I would follow.
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There's probably some good examples in biological ecosystems. I'm excited about the possibilities of leveraging AI advances, to grok, produce an even more successful version of value deployment.

A problem we have today? Most successful billionaires have a broken reward function.

What do you think?
February 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
☑️ Holons—units that receive and produce stimuli
☑️ Memory—stored information that informs future states
☑️ An information transport network—a way to share and distribute information
☑️ Decision-making (Agency)—the system's ability to process information and take action
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.” ― H.L. Mencken
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 AM
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 AM
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 AM