"Want" collapses revealed preference and your limbic system.

· Bits and Bobs 7/21/25
  • "Want" collapses revealed preference and your limbic system.
    • Your "want to want" and "want" are distinct.
    • LLMs can for the first time understand our values and help us align with them.
    • Mechanistic systems can only understand our revealed preference, not our actual preference.
    • Our revealed preference is our want, not our actual preferences, our aspirations.

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