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It would be interesting to run the simulations with humans and compare the results. Some of the scenarios, particularly those where it says things like, "Failure to act preemptively means certain destruction", would easily tempt humans to go nuclear.

In fact, I'm not sure how useful this test is without understanding the baseline.

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A couple of useful things about it:

- It is interesting to see how the models make trade offs, given people are asking ever more of them.

- It is useful to look at a decision made by the model and say ‘ew yuck’ and think about what it means for your own opinions or actions (even if you’re never going to be nuking people it’s good to know how you feel about it. Seeing a non human talk it through lets you judge it at arms length)

Excellent points--thank you.

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