Dean W. Ball
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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic…
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It may be the case that neural networks will never be perfectly explainable in a way that satisfies human rationality. (opens korrents.com)
“It may well be the case that neural networks will never be perfectly explainable, at least not in a way that satisfies human rationality.”
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Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible. (opens korrents.com)
“To be clear, I am not saying the arrival of self-sovereign AI is a good thing. Indeed, I believe there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins.…”
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The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug. (opens korrents.com)
“In this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents…”
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It may be the case that neural networks will never be perfectly explainable in a way that satisfies human rationality. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Astra (opens rcmnd.app)
“Astra is a remarkable piece of technology. Earlier agents often tried to dampen my ambitions—they’d push me to do “pilots” or “proofs of concept.” Then agents started meeting my ambitions. Astra is the first agent that…”
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Empire Of Liberty (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood, the book about the first uh uh 30 or so years of our republic, and Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene Genovese. Dean Ball, thank you very much. Thank you.”
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Roll, Jordan, Roll (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood, the book about the first uh uh 30 or so years of our republic, and Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene Genovese. Dean Ball, thank you very much. Thank you.”
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Astra (opens rcmnd.app)