Joel Becker
@joel_bkr
trying to figure out what on earth is going on with AI capabilities @METR_evals. 'soccer'-me @MessiSeconds.
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new (spicy) post from me: "Economists, mobilize"
economics ideas are extremely helpful for understanding AI, but academia is dropping the ball.
now is the time for economists to work on the most important problems in AI and to loudly encourage colleagues to do the same.
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new research from me @METR_Evals:
technical workers claim that today's AI impacts value of their work to an extraordinary degree (& growing over time).
of course, self-reports plausibly overestimate. the magnitudes nonetheless strike me as remarkable.
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