Normally I wouldn’t bring this up, but this thread is supposed to be a good space for dumb questions (although tbf the text of the question didn’t specify anything about downvotes), and neither michael’s nor my question looked that bad or harmful (maybe pattern-matched to a type of dumb uninformed question that is especially annoying).
Maybe an explanation of the downvotes would be helpful here?
We have a points system in our family to incentivize the kids to do their chores. But we have to regularly update the rules because it turns out that there are ways to optimize for the points that we didn’t anticipate and that don’t really reflect what we actually want the kids to be incentivized to do. Every time this happens I think—ha, alignment failure!
Hm, someone downvoted michael_mjd’s and my comment.
Normally I wouldn’t bring this up, but this thread is supposed to be a good space for dumb questions (although tbf the text of the question didn’t specify anything about downvotes), and neither michael’s nor my question looked that bad or harmful (maybe pattern-matched to a type of dumb uninformed question that is especially annoying).
Maybe an explanation of the downvotes would be helpful here?
I forgot about downvotes. I’m going to add this in to the guidelines.
here we are, a concrete example of failure of alignment
We have a points system in our family to incentivize the kids to do their chores. But we have to regularly update the rules because it turns out that there are ways to optimize for the points that we didn’t anticipate and that don’t really reflect what we actually want the kids to be incentivized to do. Every time this happens I think—ha, alignment failure!