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falcor84 2 hours ago

Well, for better or worse, markets are becoming increasingly dominated by "non-biological utility maximizers" - mostly hft bots, but now also llm-based reasoning agents.

dash2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Actually there’s a literature on whether llms have the standard cognitive biases, via cultural inheritance….

HPsquared an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They're not necessarily maximising utility, just the number on the screen.

fc417fc802 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"Ahkchually the paperclip maximizer isn't maximizing [human] utility, just a dumb metric" isn't a particularly useful observation to make in the context of the world being gradually consumed by an army of nanobots.

pixl97 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The utility monster has decided that numbers are more useful than products usable by humans.