No, I don’t remember exactly where on LW I saw it—just wanted to aknowledge that I was amplifying so.eone else’s thoughts.
My college writing instructor was taken aback when I asked her how to cite something I could quote, but didn’t recall from where, but her answer was “then you can’t use it” which seemed harsh. There should be a way to aknowledge plagiarism without knowing or stating who is being plagiarized—and if the original author shown up, you’ve basically pre-conceded any question of originality to them.
I don’t know that anyone has done the studies, but you could look at how winners of large lotteries behave. That is a natural example of someone suddenly gaining a lot of money (and therefore power). Do they tend to keep thier previous goals, amd just scale up thier efforts, or do they start doing power-retaining things? I have no idea what the data will show—thought experiments and amecdotes could go either way.
I saw this note in another thread, but the just of it is that power doesn’t corrupt. Rather,
Evil people seek power, and are willing to be corrupt (shared cause correlation)
Being corrupt helps to get more power—in the extreme statement of this, maintaining power requires corruption
The process of gaining power creates murder-ghandis.
People with power attract and/or need advice on how and for what goal to wield it, and that leads to mis-alignment with the agents pre-power values.
Can you add a link to the other thread please?
No, I don’t remember exactly where on LW I saw it—just wanted to aknowledge that I was amplifying so.eone else’s thoughts.
My college writing instructor was taken aback when I asked her how to cite something I could quote, but didn’t recall from where, but her answer was “then you can’t use it” which seemed harsh. There should be a way to aknowledge plagiarism without knowing or stating who is being plagiarized—and if the original author shown up, you’ve basically pre-conceded any question of originality to them.
Thx for being clear about it.
Are you aware of any research in to this? I struggle to think of any research designs that would make it through an ethics board.
I don’t know that anyone has done the studies, but you could look at how winners of large lotteries behave. That is a natural example of someone suddenly gaining a lot of money (and therefore power). Do they tend to keep thier previous goals, amd just scale up thier efforts, or do they start doing power-retaining things? I have no idea what the data will show—thought experiments and amecdotes could go either way.
Let me Google that for you.