What is the root of all evil?
🧵It's hard to avoid the feeling that all is broken, to desire build a better world. Before we start on the next utopia, let's maybe dig some more, try to see where all this brokenness stems from.
This is an expansion of a prior conversation:
🧵It's hard to avoid the feeling that all is broken, to desire build a better world. Before we start on the next utopia, let's maybe dig some more, try to see where all this brokenness stems from.
This is an expansion of a prior conversation:
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1282041049393684480
Are multipolar traps the root of all evil?
Multipolar traps are situations in which every agent would prefer to act differently, but can't for fear of every other player, instead being forced to make their own situation a little worse to avoid others making it much worse instead
Multipolar traps are situations in which every agent would prefer to act differently, but can't for fear of every other player, instead being forced to make their own situation a little worse to avoid others making it much worse instead
Meditations on Moloch from @slatestarcodex [1] as well as Inadequate Equilibria from @ESYudkowsky [2] are excellent introductions to the problem, and one you see it you can't unsee it.
[1] slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/med…
[2] equilibriabook.com
[1] slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/med…
[2] equilibriabook.com
Is path dependence the root of all evil?
Path dependence is the pattern where certain features get set early in a timeline and persist later, despite outliving their usefulness, because they cannot be replaced incrementally.
Path dependence is the pattern where certain features get set early in a timeline and persist later, despite outliving their usefulness, because they cannot be replaced incrementally.
Are violations of Goodhart's law the root of all evil?
Goodhart's law is the tendency of metrics predictive of system behavior to lose efficacy when set as a target. Worse, agents, in their attempt to maximize for the metric, sacrifice all else of value.
amazon.com/Tyranny-Metric…
Goodhart's law is the tendency of metrics predictive of system behavior to lose efficacy when set as a target. Worse, agents, in their attempt to maximize for the metric, sacrifice all else of value.
amazon.com/Tyranny-Metric…
Is bounded rationality the root of all evil?
Bounded rationality is the fact that despite our desire to think clearly about problems, we're only able to process a small amount of information, while anything we leave out may change the conclusion we make. thedecisionlab.com/biases/bounded…
Bounded rationality is the fact that despite our desire to think clearly about problems, we're only able to process a small amount of information, while anything we leave out may change the conclusion we make. thedecisionlab.com/biases/bounded…
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