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> Recent LLMs seem to model human beings well enough for it! Human beings are bundles of emotions and feelings. Quite a lot of economic activity of humans is m
by eternalban 4y ago
> Recent LLMs seem to model human beings well enough for it!
Human beings are bundles of emotions and feelings. Quite a lot of economic activity of humans is motivated by irrational impulses that are engendered in society and through interacting in society with other humans. More fundamentally, OP’s assertions regarding homo silicus and “implicit computational models of humans” are precisely the matter under contention. Does language fully capture human existence? Is thought truly simply a side effect of language? I am in the camp that says, no.
- cs702 4y agoNo one's saying that recent LLMs "fully capture human existence," whatever that may mean. But the evidence in this paper suggests they simulate human beings well enough for these kinds of experiments.
- eternalban 4y agoI’ll retract that “fully”. https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1611429677218004992 https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1611429677218004992
- cs702 4y ago:-)
- rcme 4y agoAre LLMs rational?
- eternalban 4y agotouche
- astrange 4y agoThat's not what "rational"/"irrational" means in economics. It means something like, if you're an economist and you see the price of eggs has spiked, you can't just enter the market at the old price and win all the business from existing egg farmers. You don't know more than existing market actors (they're "rational agents") just because you know economics.