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assuming the typical "spherical market in a vacuum where the agents are maximally rational non-biological utility maximizers"
by nok22kon 3mo ago
assuming the typical "spherical market in a vacuum where the agents are maximally rational non-biological utility maximizers"
- falcor84 3mo agoWell, for better or worse, markets are becoming increasingly dominated by "non-biological utility maximizers" - mostly hft bots, but now also llm-based reasoning agents.
- HPsquared 3mo agoThey're not necessarily maximising utility, just the number on the screen.
- pixl97 3mo agoThe utility monster has decided that numbers are more useful than products usable by humans.
- fc417fc802 3mo ago"Ahkchually the paperclip maximizer isn't maximizing [human] utility, just a dumb metric" isn't a particularly useful observation to make in the context of the world being gradually consumed by an army of nanobots.
- HPsquared 2mo agoI'm thinking of an earlier time when computers ran on "facts and logic" and you could probably stop the machine by giving it a logical conundrum. Vibes-based systems are a lot more resistant to this, but can still be distracted.
- dash2 3mo agoActually there’s a literature on whether llms have the standard cognitive biases, via cultural inheritance….