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...persuasive. Pre-LLM systems could do this, but only by distilling crowd sourced revealed preferences. The system didn't understand you, it just knew how to show you ads that worked for people like you. Google never knew you better than you know your...
Revealed preferences aren't enough for agency. Even a tumbleweed has revealed preferences. To have agency there has to be a second-order goal.
It's probably comforting for employees at Meta to believe that revealed preferences are all that matter. Facebook should admit that, of course, there's some parts of global optimized social media that's bad for society. If you're th...
Revealed preferences can only reveal what we do, not what we want. Sometimes the forces at play make us do things we don't want. Real want is second order, what we want ...
Craving vs calling? Revealed preferences are more likely a craving. Resonant things are more likely a calling.
Revealed preference isn't resonance, because revealed preference is shallow and resonance is deep.
...ats say we all love doomscrolling. But every one of us hates doomscrolling. Our revealed preferences can only show what we want,[n] not our higher order desires.
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...
"Revealed preferences" show that we like junk food, slop, and don't care about privacy. That's what our lizard brains want, not what our higher brains want. That is, it's...
...her. TikTok, like all engagement-maxing hyper-scale services, optimizes for the revealed preferences of what we want, not what we want to want.
Your revealed preferences fundamentally can't imply your aspirations. They must be distinct. One is your limbic system, one is your higher mind.
...antitative scale allows ranking suggestions based on your aspirations, not your revealed preferences. Your revealed preferences are dominated by your limbic system. Aligning your actions with your aspirations "Goals and aspirations" is not about fir...
...tinguish between truly resonant things and junk food in a quantitative way. Our revealed preferences can't distinguish between the two.
...portant in an age of AI. Some of my friends were co-authors! It points out that revealed preferences can't show the user's aspirations, since addiction and other manipulation can influence a user's revealed preferences. What we "want to want" and wh...
"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. M...
The term 'revealed preference' assumes that the person is perfectly rational. If the system dopamine hacked me to want that thing, does that count?
...a small gesture can have massive ripple effects. People will whisper about that revealed preference, and it can take on a life much larger than the leader realizes. As a leader, you think you're winning more and more arguments because you're smarter...