I appreciate you doing this and sharing it. I had a similar experience with rust and tokenization library (BERTScore) and realized it was better to let the barely worse method stand because the effort was not worth it to maintain long term
Readit NewsThis discussion hits close to home. A few of us at Stanford and Consumer Reports have been working on a project called Loyal Agents (loyalagents.org
) that’s focused on the same core issue raised in the Economist article, namely how to make sure AI agents actually act in the interest of the people they represent.
The idea is to define what “loyalty” means for an AI agent in both technical and legal terms, and then build systems that can prove they’re acting on a user’s behalf (ie not a platform’s or advertiser’s).
It’s early-stage research, but the overlap with many of the questions here is striking. Would be great to get feedback from this crowd as the work evolves.
I’m part of the group working on Loyal Agents and happy to discuss it.
I am a researcher in this field and and would love to talk more about loyal agents
I love typst and I tried to use it recently when shipping publications to EMNLP, AAAI, and NeurIPS. While there were a lot of upsides to it, things got very bad when the teams grew beyond just a few people. Typst is incredible for single-person or a trio of people, but the web experience is not there yet for collaboration. I’m really hoping for typst to continue and I plan to use it whenever I can for smaller projects or stuff that wont involve working with professors or students who are not interested in learning new things during publication time.
laughingcurve commented on Recursive Language Models (RLMs) alexzhang13.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/talhof8
This is old news! Agent-loops are not a model architechture
Everything old is new again when you are in academia
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How does calling a country full of people who are sad and desperate for a better life discriminate against them? This is the same kind of rhetoric I would hear someone use as an appeal to helping them. Hearing about these things makes me more kind and empathetic to the people involved - not less. It feels like you are trying to do a good intentioned thing here but maybe it’s misaligned to more malicious folks compare with how most people read these comments
A lot of people in tech are cheering for tech crash without knowing the consequences. Next crash will bring recession which lasts until the end of Trump administration given that he will never listen to experts. Most engineers will loose jobs and will replaced by new grads when the economy recovers.
Tech industry keeps this economy going. Everyone should thank all those AI investments
It’s wild watching the supposedly most tech savvy place on the internet devolve into gnashing of teeth and wailing over development and progress. Hacker News? More like Grognard Complaints
laughingcurve commented on Paramount Buys the Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News nytimes.com/2025/10/06/bu... · Posted by u/wslh
This is great. I feel like we need more of the heterodox and alt-center opinions that the Free Press brings.
Hail corporate
> Most people care about whether they can afford fun things, who they're sleeping with, and what they're having for dinner.
Ahhh, I see most of us are swimming around the bottom of Maslow's heirarchy of needs.
It’s the base because it’s the most important; not the least “erudite”.
The incentives are there. Our economy runs on incentives. Create a vulnerable group and the sharks smell blood in the water.