When will AI surpass us at being limited?

It’s not always better to be more capable. As I mentioned yesterday , it can ( famously ) be helpful in negotiations to have your hands tied. That is, to be disempowered from giving up everything the other party wants. I had previously thought of this as a somewhat rare corner case of human behavior—I for one don’t haggle very often—but I now think negotiations where this is an element are are quite common: yesterday I described it in friendly (and honest) negotiations about how to spend time, for instance. And I also see a related thing in the practice of dietary commitments. But is being less capable helpful outside of negotiating? And is this going to become AI related? Yes and yes! Commitments: more good things come to those who can commit (e.g. rides out of deserts , secrets, trust, love). ‘Committing’ generally involves cutting off certain options to yourself, whether in practical terms or via you being the kind of honorable person who can’t bear to do a thing they promised not to do. These are both kinds of limitations. If you were a more powerful creature, who was fully capable of breaking down any barrier, and fully capable of breaking a promise—a creature to whom all options were always open—then commitments would be less available to you. Transparency: a big way humans know what is going on inside other humans, well enough to trust them, is that there is a connection between what is happening inside them and what is happening on their faces and in their bodies, an…