Trenton Bricken: belief

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…I feel like I would succeed at the median. And I'm asking for the median, you know what I mean? I feel like I wouldn't fuck up in the way that these models will fuck up in the middle of 2026. I think they also might just fuck up in different ways. As a grad student, I fucked up my taxes. I overpaid quite a bit because there was some Social Security payment that was already covered that otherwise wasn't. I wonder if… I should almost test, would an LLM have made that mistake? Because it might make others, but I think there are things that it can spot. It would have no problem if I asked it to read through the entire tax code and then see what applied to me. The thing I would be able to do is like, “This is the thing I'm unsure about. I'm bringing this to your attention. Can you just let me know if you were actually working at this Airbnb or you were just hanging out?” Things like that, right? Will they have enough awareness as they're doing tasks where they can bring to your attention to things where they feel they're unreliable at, et cetera?…

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