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It's possible that a killer app of adversarial governance mechanism design theory will end up being AI safety.
Compare:
There's a deep duality between the two environments. Both are about a less-sophisticated principal trying to get ideal outcomes from a set of more-sophisticated agents: in the first case, the principal is a static algorithm and the agents are humans, in the second case, the principal is humans plus weaker LLMs and the agents are stronger LLMs.
A key finding was that you can achieve much better outcomes if you can guarantee limits to how much agents can collude (see: Nash equilibria being abundant, vs. cooperative-game-theory "cores" often being empty). That argument should naturally transfer to this new setting.
There are a thousand ways to tell the story of Devcon.
We want to see yours 🤳
Introducing the Devcon 8 Creator Fellowship: 10 creators will join us in the lead-up to Mumbai to make stories that spark curiosity, explain big ideas, and bring new people into the Devcon experience.
No single format. No single style. Just your creative lens.
Selected Fellows receive one free Devcon ticket, exclusive perks, recognition across Devcon channels, and more.
Applications are open now through September 20 ↓
⚠️ Applications for our Privacy Round close tomorrow, September 10th at 11:59:59 PM PDT (UTC-7)!
If you or anyone you know has shipped privacy focused applications, infrastructure, networks, or applied research (with traction) then you should apply and/or spread the word!
Full eligibility requirements and epoch details are available on the application cover page (
It’s only a one-page form with focused questions and reasonable character limits: you definitely still have time to complete it 👌
Thread: how I think about the growth of AI capabilities and what it means for us as they keep getting stronger.
I think the right model for comparing humans and AI is not any single dimension like intelligence or aggregate performance on economic tasks. Rather, I view both humans and machines as having a whole range of capabilities. This includes both physical (eg. doing things with our hands, walking) and mental (eg. strategic thinking, mental math, emotional intelligence).
For most of human history, machines have only exceeded us in very few areas, eg. a strong early example is water and windmills. So we can look at the situation in 1500 like this: