Moloch’s Bargain for AI

This week: Using LLMs for market research, better pricing bandits, aging as a loss of goal-directedness, verbalized sampling, giving a damn, moloch’s bargain, radical numerics

Tiny Stories, Hidden Games

This week: TinyStories, TeachLM, social sycophancy, anti-scheming, hidden games

The purpose of a system is what it does

This week: Call me a jerk, bureaucratic theory of statistics, spicy taleb japeño poppers, symbolic thought

Safe, Controversial, Unsafe

This week: Do markets believe in transformative AI, research agenda for TAI, behaviors, the sims, Qwen3Guard

Overly influenced by the architecture of the prompt

This week: Digital twins of over 2,000 people, simulation of 1,000 people, world modeling, pig-butchering, org design, wandb

The shadow of the statistician hovers in the background

This week: Why language models hallucinate, RL, REER, confusing code, the actuaries final word

Humans being bored by steady state

This week: Data agents, supply chain visibility, nurturing breakthroughs, mixture-of-recursions, governing online goods

Can you hear the screech of moving goal-posts?

This week: Persona vectors, detection of financial bubbles, deep researcher, what do algorithms want?

Simple solutions remain optimal

This week: Strategic reasoning, lottery ticket hypothesis, ProRL V2, positron, black box agent testing, pufferlib, goodreads