“WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT IS NO ONE’S JOB.”
@patio11
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Control, Trust, and Governance in Complex Systems
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“Patrick I disbelieve anyone ever gets constructive control of more than some low floor without a second sign off.” You can believe what you want to believe, but the world is complicated and runs on trust at some margins.
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AI Training Programs Address Temptation and Misuse Control
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There are even formal trainings in some places which say, explicitly, “In this training you’re going to get constructive control over real money. We want you to feel that. You will wonder if you could ever just take it. That would probably work, for a time at least.”
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Systems Learn Defection Through Low-Cost Early Opportunities
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Systems learn this, to the extent they learn anything, which is (stylistically) why they give you opportunities early to defect at very low dollar amounts.
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Value Distribution Across Competence and Social Position Curves
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There’s something of a curve here of available value at various parts of the competence/social position distribution, and unless you specialize in crime, the One Big Score will often sound tempting to somebody but not to you.
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AI Field Success Redefinition Post-LLM Era
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It’s like prior-to-LLMs AI: anyone who hits desired level of success is by definition not a member of our field.
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Politics as shortcut: tribal affiliation over incremental progress
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Which is I think why politics is an attractive option for some people; why toil for years on ameliorating X when you can fund the colored blob of your choice and feel like you got the package you signed up for, which you’re mostly onboard with when it achieves a win.
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Philanthropic Leaders Struggle Generating Impact on Major Issues
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Existence proofs for our best-organized people having above replacement rate impact on issues 4+ are very rare. Most e.g. large philanthropic founders fail to generate alpha even at one with an extreme-tail founder and a budget of stupid amounts of money.
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Tech Companies’ Legal Accountability and Whistleblower Culture
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The absence of people who seek immolation is the primary reason why Approximately Every Tech Company That Matters hasn’t had a flagrantly illegal project plan published in the Wall Street Journal.
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Government Transparency and Whistleblower Protection in Public Records
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Broadly agree but for those discoverable documents to also be public either there needs to be a public records law and a well-resourced team operating it or there needs to be an internal whistleblower who wants to immolate their career and social status.