I personally find the “virtue is good because bounded optimization is too hard” framing less valuable/persuasive than the “virtue is good because your own brain and those of other agents are trying to trick you” framing. Basically, the adversarial dynamics seem key in these situations, otherwise a better heuristic might be to focus on the highest order bit first and then go down the importance ladder.
Though of course both are relevant parts of the story here.
I personally find the “virtue is good because bounded optimization is too hard” framing less valuable/persuasive than the “virtue is good because your own brain and those of other agents are trying to trick you” framing. Basically, the adversarial dynamics seem key in these situations, otherwise a better heuristic might be to focus on the highest order bit first and then go down the importance ladder.
Though of course both are relevant parts of the story here.