CA native, phd from @Caltech, now an economist at @PurdueBusiness. research includes micro theory/behavioral/experimental economics. all statements are my own.
Can an LLM Learn Preferences from Choice Data?
I am happy to announce that we have finished revising our paper on this topic. We study whether LLMs can infer preferences from choice data and then make preference-consistent recommendations in new problems.
@mean_field_zane@localsweety i see how that would be demoralizing, but i think things will work out for most people if they don’t fall down the “red pill / woman hate” rabbit hole
@mean_field_zane@localsweety i see lots of people dating and getting married and all that. i guess there’s information selection on both ends of the spectrum so i’ll partially grant your point
@mean_field_zane@localsweety i’ll grant that some have had such experience and retract the word “incel,” but i think many of these concerns are overblown and mostly this stuff is just toxic engagement bait that leads young men astray and sets them up for failure
@mean_field_zane@localsweety i don’t even think it’s trauma for many of them. the incels have just never experienced caring for someone else and hence cannot fathom genuine care being expressed. it’s sad, but also almost entirely self-inflicted
@alz_zyd_@merlinn087 i’ve learned that some people think “arbitrary” means “random.” Somewhat related, some also tend to think “random” means “uniformly random”
My hypothesis: US university education was a massively successful export industry (foreign students paying tuition + housing + living expenses is literally classified as exports) and Trump admin collapsed this demand.
The president purchasing Nvidia shares a week before his own Commerce Department allows them to sell one of our most valuable assets to our main geopolitical opponent is unfathomably more corrupt than anything on Hilary Clinton's email server.