move ethics from some mystical thing, into an engineering/design problem
I like this vibe and want to promote my “Outcome Influencing System (OIS)” concept as a set of terminology / lens that may be valuable. Basically, anything that is trying to influence reality is an OIS, and so in that way it is the same as an optimizer, but I’m hoping to build up concepts around the term that make it a more useful way to explore and discuss these ideas than with existing terminology.
The relevance is that there are many “large sociotechnical OIS” that we have implicitly and explicitly created, and treating them as technology that should have better engineering quality assurance seems like a valuable goal.
I like this vibe and want to promote my “Outcome Influencing System (OIS)” concept as a set of terminology / lens that may be valuable. Basically, anything that is trying to influence reality is an OIS, and so in that way it is the same as an optimizer, but I’m hoping to build up concepts around the term that make it a more useful way to explore and discuss these ideas than with existing terminology.
The relevance is that there are many “large sociotechnical OIS” that we have implicitly and explicitly created, and treating them as technology that should have better engineering quality assurance seems like a valuable goal.