Moloch enthroned: if you want to do something worthwhile in the world, you have to gain power and accumulate resources to do it with. and boom, now you're good at gaining power and accumulating resources, not doing the worthwhile thing
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oh, you were just gonna give up and focus on getting the power and resources and letting specialists in the worthwhile thing handle it? boom, now you're rewarding looking to you like a good person to handle the worthwhile thing, not doing the worthwhile thing
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of course i'm not saying that Taylor Swift is Moloch, ha ha that would be ridiculous that would imply that as a society we were voluntarily sacrificing our children to her
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this is a much funnier version of something i might have said about trying to embed terminal goals such that they survive optimization for achievement of instrumental goals and whether that's a betrayal of your future selfhttps://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/1174078659830960128 …
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basically, trying to lock in your terminal goals so your future self can't betray them is a straight-up announcement that you know your current goals are so dumb and childish that a version of yourself that isn't so helpless couldn't possibly care about them on their own merits
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feeling especially called out here
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love those precision guided cluster munition callouts
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it can work if someone with power and resources finds someone good at doing the worthwhile thing and just throws money at them but that doesn't leave much for people whose goal is to personally do the thing
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only works if the person with power and resources picks the person to throw money at via inscrutable and idiosyncratic criteria with zero transparency otherwise they're throwing money at someone who's good at looking like a good candidate to them, not at doing the thing
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Start ups fix this. Bitcoin too.
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