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Proportion of children using the word 'good', by age (months), across 26 languages👏wordbank.stanford.edu

TLDR; We randomly generated scenarios to probe at people’s intuitions of how to aggregate preferences. We found that people supported the contractualist Nash Product over the Utilitarian Sum. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.05496

I'm thrilled to share that our Delphi paper is officially published today at Nature Machine Intelligence after almost four years of hard works from all my amazing collaborators (a quite insane timeline considering the rapid AI world)! Special thanks to the unwavering support of my advisor,

🌍 How do #LLMs handle trolley problems across cultures? We test them with 98K dilemmas in 107 languages, grounded in 40M+ human moral judgments. 💡 Spotlight @ICLR2025 in Singapore✈️| Best Paper Pluralistic Alignment Workshop Workshop #NeurIPS2024 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.02273 🧵👇

Where can I find this story? I do not want to be spared. "...in fact, my ideas about induction originated in a conjecture about the evolution of Western polyphony." - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 105

"Far from being maladaptive, shame appears elegantly designed to deter reputationally damaging actions and to make the best of a bad situation." osf.io/preprints/psya…

To be more charitable, I think that virtue theorists are on to something (we do have a plurality of stable cooperative dispositions, and this 'character' is the focus of other's evaluations). But this is not an alternative theory, it is part of a greater cooperative whole.

"My colleagues and I have shown that seven moral rules are universal... These principles of cooperation are judged morally good in all human societies" iai.tv/articles/human…

They did the meme!

Terrific paper by Shari Liu and colleagues Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

Research by Rohrer et al concludes that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits, but does have a small but significant effect on IQ (a decline of ~1.5 points for each increase in position), and on self-reported intellect: bit.ly/4m7QvfQ

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Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵

"the balance of empirical evidence in this area does not support the claim that social media use has a large impact on users’ political attitudes and behavior... align[s] with decades of research on the limited and conditional effects of media, propaganda, and persuasion"

"Forgiving can restore the forgiver's access to benefits that might come from future interaction with the transgressor, which is good, but it can also open the forgiver to additional exploitation in the future, which is bad." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So am I getting this right… whereas Everett thought that the universe 'splits' into many worlds, David Deutsch thinks that all possible universes 'already' exist, but are just more or less different from each other at different points? 😵‍💫thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-world…