It takes a list of issues that Zvi didn’t get to cherry pick, and then proceeds to explain all them with a couple of core tools: Goodhart’s Law, Asymmetric Justice/Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics, Forbidden Considerations, Power, and Theft. I learned a lot and put a lot of key ideas together in this post. I think it makes a great follow-up read to some of the relevant articles (i.e. Asymmetric Justice, Goodhart Taxonomy, etc).
The only problem is it’s very long. 8.5k words. That’s about 4% of last year’s book, IIRC. I think it’s worth a lot, but I think probably a bit less than that. So I’d like it to be shortened if it makes it in. That said I think Zvi’s probably up for that if it’s getting published.
I can confirm that if this post does make the cut I will spend time working to make it shorter. This wasn’t a ‘toss it off quickly’ post but it was definitely not given the ‘as short as possible’ treatment either.
This is another great response post from Zvi.
It takes a list of issues that Zvi didn’t get to cherry pick, and then proceeds to explain all them with a couple of core tools: Goodhart’s Law, Asymmetric Justice/Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics, Forbidden Considerations, Power, and Theft. I learned a lot and put a lot of key ideas together in this post. I think it makes a great follow-up read to some of the relevant articles (i.e. Asymmetric Justice, Goodhart Taxonomy, etc).
The only problem is it’s very long. 8.5k words. That’s about 4% of last year’s book, IIRC. I think it’s worth a lot, but I think probably a bit less than that. So I’d like it to be shortened if it makes it in. That said I think Zvi’s probably up for that if it’s getting published.
I expect to vote on this between +3 and +6.
I can confirm that if this post does make the cut I will spend time working to make it shorter. This wasn’t a ‘toss it off quickly’ post but it was definitely not given the ‘as short as possible’ treatment either.
Thanks! :)