In "Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog's Clothing," Robin Hanson asked three LLMs to score how much status, social skills, and judgment matter for influence across five domains. Judgment came back higher than his argument wanted. So he asked again. The second prompt told the models to focus on "who is selected or is influential … Continue reading The Experiment Hanson Didn’t Know He Ran
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The Undisciplinary Advantage: On Building Frameworks Institutions Can’t
Here is what happened. Over a few hours, a conversation with an AI model produced a biologically grounded framework connecting protein metabolism, mitochondrial function, connective tissue loading, circadian biology, gut-brain signaling, and genetic variation into a single organizing principle. The framework has a name — Signal Ecology — and a central claim: that much of … Continue reading The Undisciplinary Advantage: On Building Frameworks Institutions Can’t
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