Universities as anarchic knowledge institutions

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osf.io Abstract Universities are knowledge institutions. Compared to several other knowledge institutions (e.g., think tanks, schools, government research organisations), universities have unusual, anarchic organisational features. We argue that such anarchic features are not necessarily a weakness. Rather, they reflect the … Continued

Two kinds of counterfactual closeness

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People often consider counterfactual events that did not happen, and some counterfactuals seem so close to actual events that they are described as aspects of reality. In five pre-registered experiments (N = 1195), we show there are two kinds of … Continued

Aligning AI With Shared Human Values

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We show how to assess a language model’s knowledge of basic concepts of morality. We introduce the ETHICS dataset, a new benchmark that spans concepts in justice, well-being, duties, virtues, and commonsense morality. Models predict widespread moral judgments about diverse … Continued

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