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I Asked My Coding Agent a Yes-or-No Question. It Made a Commit.

I asked my AI coding agent a yes-or-no question. It made a commit instead. I never asked it to change anything. When did "can do" become "authorized to do"? This incident changed how I think about AI agent security. Here's what happened →

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I Built a World With Rules. Then I Changed Them.

The Rules Are Hidden. The Timeline Isn't. What happens when you put something inside a world whose rules it doesn't know? I wanted to build a small experiment.

  • NIXIE is a fictional reasoning benchmark for Kaggle.
  • Rules in NIXIE include ERASE or CONTINUE outcomes based on dice rolls.
  • Rules can change, making the experiment more challenging.

Predictions for economics, given AI

From Ingar Haaland: With math essentially being delegated to OpenAI, here’s what I predict for economics and the social sciences more generally: The top tier of research will just become better and it…

  • AI will enhance research quality in top-tier economics and social sciences.
  • Field experiments will gain more value with AI collaboration.
  • Economic history and data mining will advance with digitized archives.

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