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The Collective Intelligence Project
Company blog · cip.org/blog · on HN as padolseyaipolitics
The Collective Intelligence Project is the company blog at cip.org, writing about ai and politics. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CIP's research on positional preferences, order effects and prompt sensitivity in AI judgments. One commenter also points to a job listing describing the group's work building democratic infrastructure for AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-23
What Hacker News says?
I really recommend people study the measurement frailties and prompting sensitivities of LLM judges before employing them. They're valuable, but should be used with complete understanding of the risks: https://www.cip.org/blog/llm-judges-are-unreliable
Comment linking /blog/llm-judges-are-unreliable
on “About AI Evals”Submitted Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments as a story · 154 points
HN discussionDisappointing that they didn't benchmark DeepSeek side by side with OpenAI and Gemini although thelist of funders for cip may explain that: https://www.cip.org/funding-partnerships Incidentally DeepSeek will give very interesting results if you ask it for a tutorial on prompt engineering - be sure to ask it how to effectively use 'attention anchors' to create 'well-structured prompts', and why rambling disorganized…
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on “Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments”Submitted We need network societies, not network states (2024) as a story · 87 points
HN discussionCollective Intelligence Project | Lead Product Engineer | Remote (US time zones, PST preferred) | $150k | https://www.cip.org/careers/productengineer The Collective Intelligence Project ( http://www.cip.org ) builds platforms that allow large groups of people to participate in decisions about AI systems. In short, we’re building the democratic infrastructure for AI. We partner with AI labs and governments to evaluat…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)”Submitted Predistribution over Redistribution: Beyond the Windfall Clause as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared Code: Democratizing AI Companies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Collective Intelligence Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collective Intelligence for Collective Progress as a story · 1 points
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