scenarios
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
machinelearning.apple.com
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Miles Richardson (researcher)theguardian.com
Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of G... See more
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
Luke Kemptheguardian.com
The economics of superintelligence
economist.com
In simulations designed to mimic real-world markets, trading agents powered by artificial intelligence formed price-fixing cartels — without explicit instruction. Even with relatively simple programming, the bots chose to collude when left to their own devices, raising fresh alarms for market watchdogs.... See more
Put another way, AI bots don’t need to be evil
Money Stuff: The Bots Will Work Together
Just a moment...
papers.ssrn.com
In a world in which the computers were (1) numerous, (2) influential in setting prices, (3) trained by reinforcement learning to pick the stocks that go up, (4) extremely clever about maximizing their reward function and (5) otherwise left to their own devices, what would happen? I don’t know, man, but an intuitively plausible hypothesis is: They w... See more
Money Stuff: The Bots Will Work Together
There is a short story, or scenario to create here in which the next Gamestop is people influencing bots to do the buying