Put units on your equation. I don’t think H will end up being what you think it is. Or, the coefficients R1-R4 are exactly as complex as the problem you started with, and you’ve accomplished no simplification with this.
Heck, even the first term, (quota—paperclips made) hand-waves where the quota comes from, and any non-linearity in making slightly more for next year being better than slightly fewer than needed this year.
R1 <-> R4 are arbitrary positive floating point numbers. Units are currency units. So “human harm” is in terms of estimated actual costs + estimate reputation damage paid for injuries/wrongful deaths, “outside boundary” is an estimate of the fines for trespassing and settlements paid in lawsuits, “paperclips made” is the economic value of the paperclips, and operating cost is obvious.
Hmm. Either I’m misunderstanding, or you just described a completely amoral optimizer, which will kill billions as long as it can’t be held financially liable. Maybe just take over the governments (or at least currency control), so it can’t be financially penalized for anything, ever.
Also, you’re adding paperclip-differential to money, so the result won’t be pure money. That’s probably good, because otherwise this beast stops making paperclips and optimizes for negative realized costs on one of the other dimensions.
Put units on your equation. I don’t think H will end up being what you think it is. Or, the coefficients R1-R4 are exactly as complex as the problem you started with, and you’ve accomplished no simplification with this.
Heck, even the first term, (quota—paperclips made) hand-waves where the quota comes from, and any non-linearity in making slightly more for next year being better than slightly fewer than needed this year.
R1 <-> R4 are arbitrary positive floating point numbers. Units are currency units. So “human harm” is in terms of estimated actual costs + estimate reputation damage paid for injuries/wrongful deaths, “outside boundary” is an estimate of the fines for trespassing and settlements paid in lawsuits, “paperclips made” is the economic value of the paperclips, and operating cost is obvious.
Hmm. Either I’m misunderstanding, or you just described a completely amoral optimizer, which will kill billions as long as it can’t be held financially liable. Maybe just take over the governments (or at least currency control), so it can’t be financially penalized for anything, ever.
Also, you’re adding paperclip-differential to money, so the result won’t be pure money. That’s probably good, because otherwise this beast stops making paperclips and optimizes for negative realized costs on one of the other dimensions.