(I have used “You are bad at X; please don’t” to some effect this last year but it had not occurred to me to sketch out suggested countermeasures, in part because have spent less time in CoT prompting experiments than I should have.)
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Prompt Engineering Techniques for More Effective AI Model Responses
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(That prompt has some interesting things going on incidentally and annotating it with “this technique might get models to be more effective than simply sending a tweet-sized expression of desired outcome to them” would be a useful thing to have on Internet somewhere.)
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AI Results Reliability: Strategic Use Cases Beyond Perfect Reproducibility
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Potentially unnecessary point for you but: it doesn’t need to reproduce reliably to be very interesting, since some actors only need plausible results rather than true results, other actors can ask 20 AIs and vote, and others will simply work on prompts for a few weeks.
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Poker Table Mindset: Reframing Negotiation Strategy
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(An evocative thing poker people sometimes say is “You are at one table your entire life. The other players rotate in and out of it.” That might actually be a helpful mindset for thinking about negotiation; no need to think about others’ opinions on other tables.)
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Corporate relationships and complex financial dynamics in tech ecosystems
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There might be a large universe of other people who have complicated feelings about money and other C corps that have different feelings about you but tables you are actually at always have you and then have small number of C corps that matter.
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Corporate Compensation: What Matters for Tech Employees
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A corollary: one can repeat, like a mantra, that on does not care what people think about one’s compensation. One cares what a small number of C corporations, capable of making boundedly rational decisions, think about one’s compensation. If they’re unhappy they will tell you.
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Moral Rights to Marginal Dollars in Corporate Negotiations
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Not sure if helpful, but a thing I said on an as-yet-unpublished podcast when host brought up my negotiation essay: you, the listener, and your friends and family, do not have any less moral right to the marginal dollar than the C corp you’re at the table with. Go get it!
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Sales Professionals Reshaping Infrastructure Coordination Around DocuSign
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Sales and other professions changing the Schelling points of core infrastructure in entire industries to “it lives in Docusign.” It takes as many people as it takes.
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Fifth attempt: AI misidentifies trees, pivots between Mobile and Jacksonville
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Fifth try: Misidentifies it as a significant tree in Mobile, Alamaba. Told “incorrect”, pivots immediately to Treaty Oak in Jacksonville, FL. Told correct information, a small park in a small town in Florida, and asked to speculate on why it was wrong, says:
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OpenAI Should Commercialize AI Luck and Reliability
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If it’s getting lucky then OpenAI should sell this kind of luck: