I appreciated this sequence—the posts, and as a whole.
One thing someone will need to at some point write (6a) Mazes That Are Not Within Organizations, discussing dynamics that produce similar results without people strictly being bosses and subordinates. And generally (6b) What Types of Things are How Maze-Like, (6c) To What Extent do People At Large Have the Maze Nature, (6d) Close Examination of Maze Interactions, and so on.
The notes on future works were useful.
One hint you might be in a maze is that you are “doing the thing” in quotation marks rather than doing the thing.
As was this.
I feel like this might get at the heart of the ‘why is optimizing bad?’ question around this—if mazes are less effective, then how do we get rid of them if not by optimization?*
*One answer is alignment, but optimization offers something to be aligned to.
‘Too much optimization = not enough slack’ reads like ‘optimizing for the wrong things’.
I appreciated this sequence—the posts, and as a whole.
The notes on future works were useful.
As was this.
I feel like this might get at the heart of the ‘why is optimizing bad?’ question around this—if mazes are less effective, then how do we get rid of them if not by optimization?*
*One answer is alignment, but optimization offers something to be aligned to.
‘Too much optimization = not enough slack’ reads like ‘optimizing for the wrong things’.