A hotel manager once told a marathoner he could run a six-minute mile. The marathoner — who had raced twenty-six miles at 7:35 pace and knew exactly what a six-minute mile costs a body — called bullshit. The manager didn't retreat to "well, in high school." He doubled down. Nothing about that exchange makes sense … Continue reading Cheap Talk, Costly Feuds: A Pricing Theory of Status and Conflict
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Alignment Has a Reader Problem
Every frontier lab runs the largest canon-formation project in literary history and calls it a data pipeline. Look at the actual operations. Crawl the written world. Deduplicate it. Filter it for "quality" — a value judgment wearing a lab coat. Weight the mixture. Sequence the curriculum. Then, at the end, write a constitution instructing the … Continue reading Alignment Has a Reader Problem
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