Olivia Scharfman's Shortform
May 242
Last year, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor published a now well-circulated essay, AI as Normal Technology. The essay is still popular, I think, primarily because people would like it to be true, myself included. It is a terrifying proposition to acknowledge how different AI may be from “normal” technology. However,...
What are modern LLMs' decision theoretic tendencies? In December of 2024, the @Caspar Oesterheld et al. paper showed that models' likelihood of one-boxing on Newcomb's problem is correlated with their overall decision theoretic capabilities (as measured by their own evaluation questions) as well as with their general capability (as measured...