“More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him. You must thoroughly research this.” (Emphasis added.)
I wish I could upvote this post multiple times. Especially the “You must thoroughly research this” part, although also all the examples of institutions failing to accomplish much of anything, even when you might naively have really thought they would (e.g., individual health procedures work; how could large-scale institutions for doing those procedures not work?). I read this post back in 2008 and was like “oh, cool, it’s a nice handle for a common little bug that happens to me and other people”. I reread it just now, and was more like “Shit, good point, we actually do need to ‘thoroughly research’ how to avoid lost purposes, or how to carry our movements through to cutting the enemy. For lack of this, the EA and AI Safety movements have perhaps mostly wasted their last several years.” Recommending the “thoroughly research” part to anyone who wants to carry on a complex task across a set of tens or hundreds (or thousands) of people without having all the value dissipate into noise.
“More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him. You must thoroughly research this.” (Emphasis added.)
I wish I could upvote this post multiple times. Especially the “You must thoroughly research this” part, although also all the examples of institutions failing to accomplish much of anything, even when you might naively have really thought they would (e.g., individual health procedures work; how could large-scale institutions for doing those procedures not work?). I read this post back in 2008 and was like “oh, cool, it’s a nice handle for a common little bug that happens to me and other people”. I reread it just now, and was more like “Shit, good point, we actually do need to ‘thoroughly research’ how to avoid lost purposes, or how to carry our movements through to cutting the enemy. For lack of this, the EA and AI Safety movements have perhaps mostly wasted their last several years.” Recommending the “thoroughly research” part to anyone who wants to carry on a complex task across a set of tens or hundreds (or thousands) of people without having all the value dissipate into noise.