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[E J T @ejjiott]

Reading about Anscombe and Aumann’s ambiguity aversion approach (or AAAAAA for short).

[Elliott Thornley @ElliottThornley]

New paper!

We train AIs to choose stochastically between different trajectory-lengths.

We find that -- OOD -- they're much less likely to pay costs to influence when shutdown happens.

[Elliott Thornley @ElliottThornley]

If you open a newspaper and read of international affairs, of monetary policy, of a percentage point gained or lost overnight, you are quoting Bentham. If you praise pluralism, if you wish to maximize your gains or minimize your losses, you are quoting Bentham.

[E J T @ejjiott]

@JancsiNeumann @joodalooped Who am I to disagree with Jonny VN?

[E J T @ejjiott]

@joodalooped But also there's a sense in which you can get everything in econ theory, math, philosophy, etc. just by thinking about the situation properly

[E J T @ejjiott]

@joodalooped Hmm maybe backwards induction stuff?

If you tell two rational agents that they're going to play a prisoner's dilemma against each other some large number of times, they might cooperate every time.

But if you specify which large number they'll play, they'll defect every time.

[E J T @ejjiott]

Opus 4.7 refers to Codex as ‘her’. I’m pretty sure I didn’t prompt this in any way.

[E J T @ejjiott]

Etymology Nerd analyzing one of my tweets. https://t.co/X862QXleHn

[E J T @ejjiott]

@The_DanielKing Must be the shadowy British contingent at Anthropic.

[Athenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger]

… best answer in over 2.5 millennia

[E J T @ejjiott]

@undo_hubris Congratulations! That's exciting.

[E J T @ejjiott]

@MatthewJBar @tamaybes I think the thing that's got Zvi/80k worried is not the benchmark scores but the stories about Mythos finding exploits in Firefox, OpenBSD, Linux, etc. I don't know if GPT-5.5 could've found those.

[E J T @ejjiott]

@tyler_m_john I'd say 50% I think.

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@sebkrier I bet Suno could make a decent 'We didn't start the fire' parody out of this.

[E J T @ejjiott]

Anthropic engaging in some shrinkflation. Tokens stay the same price, but they do get smaller.

[E J T @ejjiott]

Opus 4.7 twice getting mixed up about something pretty simple.

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@Miles_Brundage I like Claude but I don't know if I want it tooled up.

[E J T @ejjiott]

@Miles_Brundage Uh oh