Aron Vallinder
aronvallinder.bsky.social
Aron Vallinder
@aronvallinder.bsky.social
3.5yo has taken to the quasi-Moorean “Now I least expect it,” seemingly oblivious to its unassertability
March 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Had a great time talking about our work on cultural evolution and cooperation in LLMs with Nathan Labenz and Ed Hughes

Plenty work remaining in developing evals for cooperation—please get in touch if interested!
Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder &Edward Hughes
YouTube video by Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very excited to announce a new paper—Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM agents—coauthored with @edwardfhughes

We study whether LLM agents can develop cooperative norms when interacting with each other, and find considerable differences across models.
December 16, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Reposted by Aron Vallinder
We’re excited to announce our new research agendas – for philosophy, economics and psychology – have now been published! You can read them here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-age...
Research agenda - Global Priorities Institute
The central focus of GPI is what we call ‘global priorities research’: research into issues that arise in response to the question, ‘What should we do with a given amount of limited resources if our a...
globalprioritiesinstitute.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Plenty of interesting papers in this PNAS special feature on half a century of cultural evolution www.pnas.org/topic/565
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Interesting perspective on LLMs, though “yet” may indeed turn out to be the key word
What Children Can Do That Large Language Models Cannot (Yet) - Study Journal
Paper by Yiu et al (2023). They argue that LLMs and vision models should not be thought of as individual agents, but rather as new cultural
blog.vallinder.se
November 3, 2023 at 9:04 AM