It looks like humans actually suffer from mesa-optimisation: when our mind finds a hack to get more dopamine via some sort of “illegal” reward center stimulation: pornography, drugs etc.
What you’re describing is humans being mesa-optimizers inside the natural selection algorithm. The phenomenon this post talks about is one level deeper.
It looks like humans actually suffer from mesa-optimisation: when our mind finds a hack to get more dopamine via some sort of “illegal” reward center stimulation: pornography, drugs etc.
What you’re describing is humans being mesa-optimizers inside the natural selection algorithm. The phenomenon this post talks about is one level deeper.