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Ada Palmer

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499 total appearances

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Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

It's full of ambiguous real-world scenarios with incomplete prompts, realistic world states, and clear evaluation criteria.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

These scenarios reward correct understanding, not just instruction following.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

For example, a user tells a home agent, I'm going to bed.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

Can you turn off all the lights?

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

A naive agent turns off all the lights in the house.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

A stronger agent checks the user's calendar, notices that there's a game night in the living room, and only turns off the bedroom lights.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

That distinction is what today's benchmarks miss.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

And this reading of context and inferring intent and acting appropriately is what LabelBox's data enables across domains.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

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Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

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Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

One thing I wanted to ask you, back to the printing press.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

So not only does printing get cheaper, but around this time, paper itself also gets cheaper.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

So like, not just reading, but writing gets cheaper.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

Yes, yes.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

And do you as historians...

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

Just see a market change in this period in the amount of records that are taken and as a result, our understanding?

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

And so what changes around this time?

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

How is Europe able to get the paper?

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

Interesting.

Dwarkesh Podcast
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

So this is a digression, but the...