@RichardHanania I agree with your general point, but this is a bad example.
Water used to grow almonds in CA is not distributed as part of a market system. It is distributed as part of an insane, historic system of water of water rights. This is the opposite of free markets.
New Anthropic research: Natural Language Autoencoders.
Models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. The numbers—called activations—encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read.
Here, we train Claude to translate its activations into human-readable text.
You change one word on a loan application: the religion. The LLM rejects it.
Change it back? Approved.
The model never mentions religion. It just frames the same debt ratio differently to justify opposite decisions.
We built a pipeline to find these hidden biases 🧵1/13
I have decided to do an occasional series explaining legal doctrines I think the public does not understand and unfairly criticize.
So let's talk about corporate personhood and Citizens United!
My therapist taught me to interrupt my anxious thinking with thoughts like:"What if things work out" and "What if all my hard work pays off?"
So, I'm passing that onto you wherever you are, whatever you're leaving, or whomever you're becoming.
@marekjanous "My solution is not that people will just be poor. People will be able to choose between being poor and working forever."
A hopeful future, full of promise.
@ThatArrowsmith@ptrschmdtnlsn The problem is that the specialist is not credited as one of the authors of the book. Everyone just pretends that the famous person wrote it.
@ptrschmdtnlsn Being a famous person and collaborating with a writer is totally fine.
The problem with ghost writing is that the writer gets no credit, and everyone pretends that the famous person wrote the book.
If you did this in university, you would be expelled for plagiarism.