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I had an idea a while ago, which sounded simple to me, but searching with certain keywords did not yield appropriate results, so am presenti

I wanted to take a poll among LW folk since this question I had didn't seem to have a straight forward utilitarian answer. Please correct my

I would like to raise a discussion topic in the spirit of trying to quantify risk from uncontrolled / unsupervised software. What is the m

Related to : Lost Purposes, The importance of Goodhart's Law, Homo Hypocritus, SIAI's scary idea, Value Deathism Summary : Whenever human

Most long term users on Less Wrong understand the concept of optimization power and how a system can be called intelligent if it can restric

This article introduces Goodhart's law, provides a few examples, tries to explain an origin for the law and lists out a few general mitigati