Samuel Hammond
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Samuel Hammond is a Canadian-born economist based in Washington, DC.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Senior economist, Foundation for American Innovation (as of November 2026) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Earlier: Director of Social Policy, Niskanen Center; technology policy research, Mercatus Center (opens wiqqi.app)
- Newsletter: Second Best (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @hamandcheese (opens x.com)
“Is the Binance hack covered by RAISE or SB53? The damages are clearly high enough, but the attribution and level of human involvement is unknown. This only underscores how inadequate these laws are.”
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Newsletter: Second Best (opens www.secondbest.ca)
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
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x.com: @hamandcheese (opens x.com)
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23 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains. (opens korrents.com)
“we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.”
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Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards does not reliably carry a model's pretrained ethical understanding into its actual behavior. (opens korrents.com)
“In short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for…”
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Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist. (opens korrents.com)
“human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.”
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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint (opens rcmnd.app)
“For those curious to learn more, I recommend Joseph Heath’s Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint – a book ostensibly about the evolution of language, rule-following, and human normativity…”
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Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint (opens rcmnd.app)