In tech, revealed preference became the norm.
- In tech, revealed preference became the norm.
- Tech knows our base desires, not our higher level intentions.
- LLMs allow us to change that, because they allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
From other episodes
- It's creepy when a system that knows you better than you know yourself shows you ads.2026-03-23
- Revealed preferences aren't enough for agency.2026-03-02
- With LLMs we can move from Product Market Fit to Person Market Fit.2026-01-26
- LLMs allow the possibility for resonance at a scale that has never been possible before.2025-12-08
- It's probably comforting for employees at Meta to believe that revealed preferences are all that matter.2025-11-10
- There is structurally less qualitative user research than there should be.2025-10-20
- Scale doesn't have to be inhuman.2025-10-13
- Revealed preferences can only reveal what we do, not what we want.2025-10-06