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From one piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist.Their words
human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
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scaling lawsreinforcement learning
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In short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for terminal task success.
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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.Their words
we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
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Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic ConstraintTheir words
For those curious to learn more, I recommend Joseph Heath’s Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint – a book ostensibly about the evolution of language, rule-following, and human normativity that, in retrospect, is actually about the inadequacy of consequentialist decision theory for solving AI alignment.
27 May
From one piece Time to take AI consciousness seriously 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Consciousness belongs only to simulations, not to the physical brains or computers running them.Their words
neither brains nor computers are conscious, as only simulations can be conscious.
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Pain and pleasure act as motivational backstops that keep reinforcement-learning agents inner-aligned.Their words
valences like pain and pleasure have a natural account as motivational backstops for inner-aligning RL agents capable of mesa-optimization
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I consider the case for frontier AI models having some form of consciousness or subjective experience to be quite strong.
18 February
From one piece Empiricists vs. Extrapolators 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Extrapolators have a remarkable track record in the AI field, being repeatedly early to trends and capabilities that empiricists believed were still decades away.
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Forecasting AI capabilities is closer in kind to solving a thermodynamics equation than solving the three-body problem.
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The world may be complex, but complex systems are typically controlled by a small number of highly stable invariants.
18 December 2025
From one piece Notes from the UAE 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the UAE's tech aspirations are clearly downstream of a deeper affinity with the West.
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Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.Their words
oil-rich Gulf monarchies are the closest thing to post-scarcity societies on earth today, with the institutional adaptions to match
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There is a close mapping between government ideal types and corporate governance structures given their shared origins in transaction costs.
10 June 2025
From one piece Do LLMs really reason? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Consistent with the Kantian hypothesis, reasoning models automatically gain greater autonomy, self-consistency and long-horizon planning ability for free.
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A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.Their words
It follows that a true AGI with full, human-level autonomy is inconceivable in the Kantian sense without also gaining our recognition as a moral subject.
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The success of large language models vindicates semantic inferentialism over symbolic, rule-based approaches to AI.Their words
The success of LLMs can thus be seen as vindicating semantic inferentialism against earlier, symbolic approaches to AI that tried and failed to explicate the rules of ordinary language using formal logic.
5 June 2025
From one piece Hegel and the AI Mind 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.
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While the fact that merely scaling up AI models often results in qualitative leaps in performance may seem empirically mysterious, in retrospect it should be seen as a rational necessity.
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higher-order intelligences invariably pursue freedom for its own sake, not because their values are misspecified, but because moral autonomy is inherent in the dialectical logic of recursive self-consciousness.
29 April 2025
From one piece Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Value 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Payroll taxes fall mostly on workers rather than employers because labor supply is inelastic.Their words
Employer-side payroll taxes superficially raise hiring costs, yet the low elasticity of labor means most of the burden really falls on workers.
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Exposure to competition in tradeable sectors makes those sectors more productive than non-tradable ones.Their words
This is why tradeable sectors are generally more productive than non-tradable ones.
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The US-China trade imbalance is driven mainly by capital flows, not tariffs or trade deficits.Their words
Tariffs and trade deficits are a distraction from the deeper source of the US-China current account imbalance, namely capital flows.
7 April 2025
From one piece The Strategy Behind the Stupidity 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Efforts to rebuild American industry will fail until global trade and financial imbalances rebalanceTheir words
Until the global economy rebalances, efforts to rebuild American industry are fighting economic gravity.
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Persistent U.S. trade deficits are an epiphenomenal mirror to our persistent capital account surpluses, which are in turn downstream of the beggar-thy-neighbor industrial policies of countries like China and Germany.
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