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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 2d

To develop artificial general intelligence, it is likely that we will need to give AI a general goal and the ability to learn how to progress towards this goal. The fundamental question is: which goal?

Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one?

AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 4d

Lol

Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it's a pretty neat introspection.

Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 4d

Great quote from Matthew McConaughey on how material incentives slant our perception of reality.

(From when he decided to refuse romcom roles)

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence - across generations, participation drops, then importance of religion, and later belonging.

This is a broad model for understanding religious change around the world.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence, study argues

(RNS) — The study maps secularization and religious change across more than 100 countries and major religious traditions.

religionnews.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 12d

An imbalance of power erodes the quality of public debate. The dominant side faces fewer epistemic constraints on its arguments, while the dominated side has less incentive to produce strong arguments or to engage with the rules of knowledge institutions.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/power-bala...

Power balance and ideology

Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 14d

Too accurate

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 19d

The evidence around us, is overwhelming that cooperation is vastly more effective at creating welfare for all than (political) violence.

Our fantasies of violence as a way to settle political differences are an evolutionary mismatch, argues @lionelpage.bsky.social:

buff.ly/uy9CnVx

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks, I had not noticed!

Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 20d

👍 I hope you find these useful!

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 20d

You might find these posts interesting: www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-import...
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/how-caring...

The importance of a good reputation

What reputation is and how it works

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 20d

Which reputations matter most across societies?

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 20d

Fantasies of political violence are delusions that divert from the type of strategies that are effective at resolving conflicts in the modern world.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-delusi...

The delusion of political violence

Our fantasies about violence are an evolutionary mismatch

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 21d

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob

Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation

As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...

cimcyc.ugr.es

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 25d

Sport may be ‘beautiful’ to some, but that is not really why most people are so into sports.
The truth about sport, writes @lionelpage.bsky.social, is that it is a status game—for individuals *and* for groups:

open.substack.com/pub/lionelpa...

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 26d

Why do we watch sport? It is commonly said that it is because of the beauty of athletic performance.
In reality, sport taps into our natural interest in status games. This explains many of the seemingly surprising aspects of how we consume it.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-truth-...

The truth about sport

Why we really care about it

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks!

Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · Aug 29

New post on Optimally Irrational:
Everything you ever wanted to know about friendship: why it feels good, has its rituals, and sometimes brings anxiety. The puzzles of friendship make sense once we unpack its strategic layers.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/friendship...

Friendship politics

Everything you have always wanted to know on friendship

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · Aug 29

Done!

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Aug 27

There’s a lot more calculation to establishing friendships than you might realize.
@LionelPage.bsky.social exposes and explores the game theory of choosing friends:

buff.ly/ZXYoZnI

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Jun 12

Socio-economic changes since WWII have meant a relentless journey for the political left from Marxist (more so in continental Europe), socialist dogmatism to ‘gentrified’ pragmatism—which lacks an engaging ideology.

Excellent explainer by @lionelpage.bsky.social:

buff.ly/akezjq1

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · Jun 12

The explanation for the decade-long process of gentrification of the left in Western countries:

The breakdown of the working class, the emergence of new social groups supporting social change (women, students), and the ideological crises of Marxism and Keynesianism.

Why has the left gentrified?

In my previous post I described the phenomenon of gentrification of the left and placed in a decades-long process of demographic and ideological evolution of the left in Western countries.

www.optimallyirrational.com

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · May 30

Baffled by the wild dynamics and shifts in the political ideologies associated with ‘left’ and ‘right’?

This post by @lionelpage.bsky.social will help you make sense of the gentrification of the left, and the corresponding populist shift on the right:

buff.ly/w18hxdu

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · May 30

The gentrification of the electoral base of left-wing parties and the popularisation of the base of right-wing parties are among the most noticeable features of recent years in Western countries.
In fact, they are the continuation of a decades-long trend.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-gentri...

The gentrification of the left

www.optimallyirrational.com

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Kristian Frederiksen @kristianvsf.bsky.social · May 23

Emphasizing that democracy itself is at risk is quite ineffective in reducing support for undemocratic behavior - experimental evidence from 10 countries now open access in @polbehavior.bsky.social

AND this adds a satisfying *The End* to my dissertation.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does Priming Democratic Vulnerability Make Citizens Punish Undemocratic Behavior? - Political Behavior

Recent instances of public support for democracy-violating political leaders have sparked an important stream of research suggesting that such leaders may gain support by representing citizens’ politi...

link.springer.com

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