Ben Recht

Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/ Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/ The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision

Articles & links

The full commentary from mathematicians asked to review the proof is thoughtful and worth a read: cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...

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In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.

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Recent commentary

Have to appreciate the audacity of Anthropic defending three successive model releases with diminishing quality by claiming it's both intentional and for our own good.

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