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Incentives

TagLast edit: 14 Oct 2021 14:27 UTC 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

An Equil­ibrium of No Free Energy

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2017 21:27 UTC
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Re­in­force­ment Via Giv­ing Peo­ple Cookies

Screwtape15 Nov 2023 4:34 UTC
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Inad­e­quacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC
132 points
78 comments18 min readLW link

Against Ar­gu­ments For Exploitation

blackstampede6 Oct 2022 1:58 UTC
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[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Incentive

aysajan27 Aug 2021 19:22 UTC
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6 comments3 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

Scott Alexander30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC
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10 comments47 min readLW link

Asym­met­ric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
234 points
104 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC
208 points
75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Notes on Shame

David Gross2 Nov 2021 4:33 UTC
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Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC
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Fer­til­ity Roundup #3

Zvi2 Apr 2024 14:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pay Risk Eval­u­a­tors in Cash, Not Equity

Adam Scholl7 Sep 2024 2:37 UTC
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A frame­work for think­ing about AI power-seeking

Joe Carlsmith24 Jul 2024 22:41 UTC
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Science ad­vances one funeral at a time

1 Nov 2024 23:06 UTC
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The 6D effect: When com­pa­nies take risks, one email can be very pow­er­ful.

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC
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[Question] What are some real life Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria?

Eli Tyre29 Jan 2021 12:17 UTC
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Liv­ing in an Inad­e­quate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC
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In­cen­tive com­pat­i­bil­ity and the Reve­la­tion Principle

badger3 May 2014 13:38 UTC
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Player of Games

Jacob Falkovich29 Aug 2018 21:26 UTC
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Good Heart Week: Ex­tend­ing the Experiment

Ben Pace2 Apr 2022 7:13 UTC
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I dis­cov­ered LessWrong… dur­ing Good Heart Week

identity.key7 Apr 2022 13:22 UTC
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Fea­ture re­quest: vot­ing but­tons at the bot­tom?

Oliver Sourbut24 Jun 2022 14:41 UTC
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Fer­til­ity Rate Roundup #1

Zvi27 Feb 2023 13:30 UTC
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20 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Who Aligns the Align­ment Re­searchers?

Ben Smith5 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
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0 comments11 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing Im­pact Markets

Saul Munn31 Jan 2024 9:51 UTC
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2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Sig­nal­ing Vir­tu­ous Vic­tim­hood as Indi­ca­tors of Dark Triad Personalities

Ben Smith26 Aug 2021 19:18 UTC
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3 comments1 min readLW link
(mlpol.net)

En­courag­ing New Users To Bet On Their Beliefs

YafahEdelman18 Apr 2023 22:10 UTC
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[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Selec­tion Incentive

aysajan2 Sep 2021 20:26 UTC
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6 comments3 min readLW link

The com­mer­cial in­cen­tive to in­ten­tion­ally train AI to de­ceive us

Derek M. Jones29 Dec 2022 11:30 UTC
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1 comment4 min readLW link
(shape-of-code.com)

[Question] Will the Bit­coin fee mar­ket ac­tu­ally work?

TropicalFruit11 Mar 2023 0:02 UTC
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Try­ing to Keep the Gar­den Well

Tobias H16 Jan 2022 5:42 UTC
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Duty to res­cue /​ Non-as­sis­tance à per­sonne en danger

Thomas Sepulchre13 Sep 2023 9:49 UTC
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Tal Yarkoni: No, it’s not The In­cen­tives—it’s you

Zack_M_Davis11 Jun 2019 7:09 UTC
89 points
119 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews
(www.talyarkoni.org)

Ques­tion 4: Im­ple­ment­ing the con­trol proposals

Cameron Berg13 Feb 2022 17:12 UTC
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How my school gamed the stats

Srdjan Miletic20 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC
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[Question] What is to be done? (About the profit mo­tive)

Connor Barber8 Sep 2023 19:27 UTC
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Virtue taxation

Dentosal12 Jul 2024 14:56 UTC
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Re­ward Hack­ing from a Causal Perspective

21 Jul 2023 18:27 UTC
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6 comments7 min readLW link

Buy­ing a house and mak­ing friends in un­ex­pected places

dominicq28 Mar 2021 14:35 UTC
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4 comments1 min readLW link

In­cen­tives from a causal perspective

10 Jul 2023 17:16 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Progress on Causal In­fluence Diagrams

tom4everitt30 Jun 2021 15:34 UTC
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6 comments9 min readLW link