Despite being an EA and valuing efficiency in parts of my life and the world, I share the intimate rejection of efficiency in certain context that you’re describing (and not getting). Like, I don’t want a date with my girlfriend to be efficient. Now, you might answer that it’s because I’m talking about efficiency with regard to time management or money, and not about “having a great time with my girlfriend”. But my point is that “having a great time with my girlfriend” is the kind of objective for which the efficiency framing doesn’t seem appropriate. Indeed it’s not buying me anything and creates a shitload of pitfalls in which to fall (Goodhart, all that).
Despite being an EA and valuing efficiency in parts of my life and the world, I share the intimate rejection of efficiency in certain context that you’re describing (and not getting). Like, I don’t want a date with my girlfriend to be efficient. Now, you might answer that it’s because I’m talking about efficiency with regard to time management or money, and not about “having a great time with my girlfriend”. But my point is that “having a great time with my girlfriend” is the kind of objective for which the efficiency framing doesn’t seem appropriate. Indeed it’s not buying me anything and creates a shitload of pitfalls in which to fall (Goodhart, all that).