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The Value of Things

Even as AI models grow more powerful and agents generate more choices, humans still decide what is useful and valuable.
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*๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐›๐ฒ Shayan Friday September 04, 2026 17:15

๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น,

We are tempted to one-shot everything.

But feedback loops are so important, and as Ilya Sutskever and terence tao both have said,

we need to have an understanding of what is โ€˜valuableโ€™ to us.

Even if the agent comes up with 5-6 โ€˜choicesโ€™

At the end of the day, either

a) the programmer

b) the user

have to decide if it is useful.

Despite taking the proverbial โ€˜human out of the loopโ€™

Ultimately all value is decided by humans - even if it is generated by ai...


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