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noahpinion.blog

Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in economics and the social sciences…[W]e find that AI advice depolarizes choices on average, moving participants away from their initial leanings. This depolarization arises despite the LLM being measurably sycophantic: it disproportionately offers considerations that support users' initial leanings and uses agreeable and flattering language.
— Noah Smith

4w ago

noahpinion.blog

Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?

The students said that they only stayed on TikTok because other people were on it too, and they were afraid of missing out. FOMO is not utility; it's a bad equilibrium.

1mo ago

asteriskmag.com

Boarding China’s Last Bus

for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.

1mo ago

asteriskmag.com

Boarding China’s Last Bus

But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.

2mo ago

notboring.co

Scarce Assets

Humans fucking love scarce things. Always have. The more we win from abundance, the more we want to roll the winnings into scarce things. Scarce is special. If we are entering a period of untold abundance, expect a roaring bull market in Scarce Assets.

3mo ago

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