@deviantollam has a great video up with a much more upclose OTG details from DEFCON on the badge situation.
Sadly sounds like DEFCON both had good cause to pull the plug on the badge contract+talk and luckily had volunteers on hand who successfully completed delivery of the project.
That's no small feat!
Hard to watch contractors getting fired etc but Dev tends to have a pretty level headed read on things.
Definitely want to send some positive vibes to the Entropic team. I wasn't there so I don't have a better read than others, but I have been on teams of independent contractors and it'd be pretty devastating to get stiffed in the way this blog describes (even if a teammate pissed off the client).
Entropic clearly did some serious work on this year's badge and I hope the conference is able to resolve that dispute.
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to unnecessary death and suffering. see the violence all around you.
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"Intrinsic Motivation in Dynamical Control Systems"
This paper defines a "Generalized Empowerment" measure, connecting empowerment to causal entropic forces and Lyapunov exponents. Looks like a must-read!
#intrinsic #motivation #empowerment #predictive #information #biology #agents #agency #dynamicalsystems #lyapunov #causal #entropic #forces
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