Recent Reading
Will reward-seekers respond to distant incentives? — LessWrong
Reward-seekers are usually modeled as responding only to local incentives administered by developers. Here I ask: Will AIs or humans be able to influence their incentives at a distance—e.g., by retroactively reinforcing actions substantially in the future or by committing to run many copies of them in simulated deployments with different incentives?
Two Buckets - by Gauraventh - Dhaniya
Those who ‘get it’ need to set the strategic direction. They have a clearer sense of what to work on, so they should decide what gets prioritised. Those who are ‘cracked’ execute on that direction to a high standard. Getting this the wrong way round -- letting someone with no strategic sense lead an agenda because they’re competent -- would be an obvious mistake.
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.net
It’s not just enough for me personally to be running a fast OODA loop—in a large group, everyone needs to be autonomously making frequent, high-quality, local prioritization decisions, without needing a round-trip through me.
Favorite Reads
How I've run major projects— Ben Kuhn
More to come — I haven't been keeping much track but I'll find these eventually.