layer 3 · theory
principle P11 · observer and observed
Studying up
Because the organisms may out-model their observers and form a diverging multitude, instruments must not depend on out-thinking them, and the science must predict constraints and equilibria rather than trajectories.
- What a test would record
- instruments valid when known
Evidence in the register
Works it draws on
- A Foundation Model to Predict and Capture Human Cognition
- Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
- The Looping Effects of Human Kinds
- Frontier Models are Capable of In-Context Scheming
- Up the anthropologist: Perspectives gained from studying up