Not sure I follow—chaperones don’t seem complex enough to have intent at all, so by that definition they are non-manipulative in the same sense that rocks are—it’s a concept that doesn’t apply to them, not something they could do and choose not to.
That’s a big contrast with human communication—there is definitely intent behind every communication. For this kind of action, the selective removal of forces seems near-indistinguishable from the selective addition of force in order to enable/influence some change. It feels like there’s a naturalistic fallacy going on—some underlying belief that what happens in a vacuum is better than what happens in a real equilibrium.
On this site, concerns about the (theoretical) manipulative abilities of superhuman AI seem to be mentioned fairly often. (Facebook algorithms/worry about twitter (usually more about observed results/mechanism design-ish) come up less often, but are mentioned.)
What do you want out of the algorithms you interact with, say underlying social media?
Not sure I follow—chaperones don’t seem complex enough to have intent at all, so by that definition they are non-manipulative in the same sense that rocks are—it’s a concept that doesn’t apply to them, not something they could do and choose not to.
That’s a big contrast with human communication—there is definitely intent behind every communication. For this kind of action, the selective removal of forces seems near-indistinguishable from the selective addition of force in order to enable/influence some change. It feels like there’s a naturalistic fallacy going on—some underlying belief that what happens in a vacuum is better than what happens in a real equilibrium.
What about “communication” with a program?
On this site, concerns about the (theoretical) manipulative abilities of superhuman AI seem to be mentioned fairly often. (Facebook algorithms/worry about twitter (usually more about observed results/mechanism design-ish) come up less often, but are mentioned.)
What do you want out of the algorithms you interact with, say underlying social media?