PWR Notes
Last edited: August 8, 2025titles should have proper noun
cultural context, summary of the text, thesis—highlight Kairos (American context)
conclusion: what’s significant of this rhetoric?
access credibility
peer review
publication (editor and publisher should be named), is there a special interest group?
author’s training and publicatino record
quality of argument (reasoning + evidence, quality of works cited)
can you find some of the info else where in reputable sources?
cite one additional source
For instance, talk about Karios specifically
PWR1 RBA Planning
Last edited: August 8, 2025Dual influence framework:
- requires political involvement
- requires diverse media diet
Proposal: based on feedback on TIC-focus on one case study and isolate it well
Quotes
Social media as a means of exposure to the modern world
“Daniel Lerner (1958) saw mass media as the main catalyst for social change. Lerner argued that media exposed people who possess traditional values to the “modern” world, and that exposure in turn produced a desire to live in it.” [Díez and Dion, 2022, p. 467]
PWR1 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Planning
Last edited: August 8, 2025General Information
Due Date | Topic | Important Documents |
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Sunday, Jan 21 | AI Alignment | Yejin Choi Talk |
Claim Synthesis
Quotes Bin
Double entendre which frames the study of AI safety as “intellectual” (in contrast to War)
“And then there are these additional intellectual questions. Can AI, without robust common sense, be truly safe for humanity?”
double intentre: “intellectual” as in interesting but also “intellectual” as in worth asking
Language of Extremes: AI safety is a “bruce force” problem which requires “extreme scale”
And is brute-force scale really the only way and even the correct way to teach AI? So I’m often asked these days whether it’s even feasible to do any meaningful research without extreme-scale compute.
PWR1 Texts in Conversation Planning
Last edited: August 8, 2025Quotes Bin
polarization distorts beliefs about others
“Recent years have seen a sharp increase in political polarization in the United States (1–7), leading to deadlock in Congress (8), distorted beliefs about fellow Americans (9, 10), and distrust, hostility, and even violence toward outgroup members (11–13)” [Novoa et al., 2023, p. 1]
generics about particular group is a way that polarized languages manifest
“Specifically, we focus on expressions that make claims about a category as a whole (e.g., “Democrats want to defund the police” makes a claim about the category of “Democrats”), also known as generics (34–38).” [Novoa et al., 2023, p. 2]
QMDP
Last edited: August 8, 2025One alpha vector per action:
\begin{equation} \alpha^{(k+1)}_{a}(s) = R(s,a) + \gamma \sum_{s’}^{}T(s’|s,a) \max_{a’} \alpha^{(k)}_{a’} (s’) \end{equation}
This is going to give you a set of alpha vectors, one corresponding to each action.
time complexity: \(O(|S|^{2}|A|^{2})\)
you will note we don’t ever actually use anything partially-observable in this. Once we get the alpha vector, we need to use one-step lookahead in POMDP (which does use transitions) to actually turn this alpha vector into a policy, which then does create you