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Incentives

TagLast edit: Oct 14, 2021, 2:27 PM by Vladimir_Nesov

An Incentive is a motivating factor, such as monetary reward, the risk of legal sanctions, or social feedback. Many systems are best understood by looking at the incentives of the people with power over them.

Inadequate Equilibria covers many problems that arise when there are poor incentives.

Related Pages: Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Moloch, Moral Mazes

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ScrewtapeNov 15, 2023, 4:34 AM
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An Equil­ibrium of No Free Energy

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Inad­e­quacy and Modesty

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[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Incentive

aysajanAug 27, 2021, 7:22 PM
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Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

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Asym­met­ric Justice

ZviApr 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
237 points
105 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
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Against Ar­gu­ments For Exploitation

blackstampedeOct 6, 2022, 1:58 AM
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Notes on Shame

David GrossNov 2, 2021, 4:33 AM
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Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

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12 comments12 min readLW link

Fer­til­ity Roundup #3

ZviApr 2, 2024, 2:50 PM
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11 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pay Risk Eval­u­a­tors in Cash, Not Equity

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19 comments1 min readLW link

A frame­work for think­ing about AI power-seeking

Joe CarlsmithJul 24, 2024, 10:41 PM
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15 comments16 min readLW link

Science ad­vances one funeral at a time

Nov 1, 2024, 11:06 PM
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The 6D effect: When com­pa­nies take risks, one email can be very pow­er­ful.

scasperNov 4, 2023, 8:08 PM
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42 comments3 min readLW link

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

ElizabethAug 2, 2019, 8:50 PM
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75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What are some real life Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria?

Eli TyreJan 29, 2021, 12:17 PM
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Liv­ing in an Inad­e­quate World

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 9, 2017, 9:23 PM
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47 comments20 min readLW link

In­cen­tive com­pat­i­bil­ity and the Reve­la­tion Principle

badgerMay 3, 2014, 1:38 PM
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Player of Games

Jacob FalkovichAug 29, 2018, 9:26 PM
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3 comments12 min readLW link

Good Heart Week: Ex­tend­ing the Experiment

Ben PaceApr 2, 2022, 7:13 AM
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I dis­cov­ered LessWrong… dur­ing Good Heart Week

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Fea­ture re­quest: vot­ing but­tons at the bot­tom?

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Fer­til­ity Rate Roundup #1

ZviFeb 27, 2023, 1:30 PM
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20 comments11 min readLW link
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Who Aligns the Align­ment Re­searchers?

Ben SmithMar 5, 2023, 11:22 PM
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Ex­plain­ing Im­pact Markets

Saul MunnJan 31, 2024, 9:51 AM
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Progress on Causal In­fluence Diagrams

tom4everittJun 30, 2021, 3:34 PM
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Sig­nal­ing Vir­tu­ous Vic­tim­hood as Indi­ca­tors of Dark Triad Personalities

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(mlpol.net)

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Selec­tion Incentive

aysajanSep 2, 2021, 8:26 PM
13 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

The com­mer­cial in­cen­tive to in­ten­tion­ally train AI to de­ceive us

Derek M. JonesDec 29, 2022, 11:30 AM
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(shape-of-code.com)

[Question] Will the Bit­coin fee mar­ket ac­tu­ally work?

TropicalFruitMar 11, 2023, 12:02 AM
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Duty to res­cue /​ Non-as­sis­tance à per­sonne en danger

Thomas SepulchreSep 13, 2023, 9:49 AM
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Try­ing to Keep the Gar­den Well

Tobias HJan 16, 2022, 5:42 AM
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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is to be done? (About the profit mo­tive)

Connor BarberSep 8, 2023, 7:27 PM
1 point
21 comments1 min readLW link

Tal Yarkoni: No, it’s not The In­cen­tives—it’s you

Zack_M_DavisJun 11, 2019, 7:09 AM
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119 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews
(www.talyarkoni.org)

Ques­tion 4: Im­ple­ment­ing the con­trol proposals

Cameron BergFeb 13, 2022, 5:12 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

How my school gamed the stats

Srdjan MileticFeb 20, 2021, 7:23 PM
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26 comments4 min readLW link

Re­ward Hack­ing from a Causal Perspective

Jul 21, 2023, 6:27 PM
29 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Virtue taxation

DentosalJul 12, 2024, 2:56 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­cen­tives from a causal perspective

Jul 10, 2023, 5:16 PM
27 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Buy­ing a house and mak­ing friends in un­ex­pected places

dominicqMar 28, 2021, 2:35 PM
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

En­courag­ing New Users To Bet On Their Beliefs

YafahEdelmanApr 18, 2023, 10:10 PM
49 points
8 comments2 min readLW link