This paper perfectly articulates the problem I spent the last year solving. The shift from "hallucination" to "fidelity decay" is the correct mental model for agent stability.
I built an open source framework called SAFi that implements the "Fidelity Meter" concept mentioned in section 4. It treats the LLM as a stochastic component in a control loop. It calculates a rolling "Alignment State" (using an Exponential Moving Average) and measures "Drift" as the vector distance from that state.
The paper discusses "Ground Erosion" where the model loses its hierarchy of values. In my system, the "Spirit" module detects this erosion and injects negative feedback to steer the agent back to the baseline. I recently red-teamed this against 845 adversarial attacks and it maintained fidelity 99.6% of the time.
It is cool to see the theoretical framework catching up to what is necessary in engineering practice.
Two weeks ago on Saturday morning I was driving my son to his soccer game through Medford MA, when in one of the bus stops I saw Richard Stallman waiting for the bus.
I told my wife, that's Richard! and I stopped right in the middle of the street and jumped out of the car. I ran toward him and hugged him, and told him to take care of himself and be strong. He didn't say a word.
I feel bad for the man, he looked a bit frail, and mind absent.
I can't believe history is being rewritten right in front of my eyes, the man that started it all is being forgotten. Open Source is just a catchy marketing phrase for "free software"
Exactly, I don't know much about the Romans but I read a lot of philosophy from around 1700s, and you can see that a lot of the principles in the declaration of Independence and the constitution were shaped by some of those contemporary philosophical ideals.
Have you ever seen a bat blowing up smoke? You'll find videos on YouTube from people giving bats a smoke, but I once saw a bat smoking for real, he intentionally looked for the cigarette to have another puff, it was hilarious!
I converted my HTC One M7 to GPE to get the upgrade to Lollipop sooner. I only used Lollipop for a couple of days, and went back to stock again, I just couldn't handle it. too inconsistent, and it really felt like a downgrade from the stock HTC experience.
