it still is a bad thing to optimize for
Impacting the status quo is a fine thing to optimize for. Negative karma is a stupid thing to optimize for.
However I believe that here we are not talking about optimizing, but rather about warning signs.
Impacting the status quo is a fine thing to optimize for.
No, it’s not. It is much easier to “impact the status quo” by making things worse than by making things better.
Optimization implies that you picked a direction. Optimizing impact means optimizing not just magnitude, but magnitude of a specific sign.
Impacting the status quo is a fine thing to optimize for. Negative karma is a stupid thing to optimize for.
However I believe that here we are not talking about optimizing, but rather about warning signs.
No, it’s not. It is much easier to “impact the status quo” by making things worse than by making things better.
Optimization implies that you picked a direction. Optimizing impact means optimizing not just magnitude, but magnitude of a specific sign.