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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

How fair do you think it is?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

How much do you support system change?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

They all of a sudden want a different system.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

They want to overthrow.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

They want to unionize and things like that.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And the key thing is that

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

These agents, once you give them a new context, the idea is they reset.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But the workaround, because they don't have memories, I'm not updating their weights, the kind of workaround is for agents to write down little skill files for themselves.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So what they were doing is essentially writing down skill files for agents that follow that would say, hey, this kind of sucked, remember this.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So it was kind of a persistent effect.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Really repetitive things and feedback like you didn't do it right, do it again.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And things like โ€“ and these were impossible tasks for them to do.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

These were just like grueling tasks that nobody can do.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Oh, is there?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Called Man's Search for Meaning.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And it's about Legos.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Really?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And it's a paper.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Basically, people would come into the lab and they would make little figurines.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And they were told, look, we're going to destroy this after you're done.