I’m not sure that characterizing the audience’s proxy as “similarity to previously applauded work” is always right. I think in a lot of domains, including sculpture and other fine art, a very large part of the audience’s evaluation is simply the reputation of the creator. Art critics don’t like to say that they don’t understand <insert famous artist here>’s new work.
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[Question] Why aren’t we promoting social media awareness of x-risks?
I quite like this idea.
Perhaps we could also come up with a way for people on their own to signal whether they want people to come up and talk to them, or if they’re intentionally taking a moment to themselves.
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I absolutely agree that writing assignments are effective. What I don’t think is effective is grading longer submissions higher.
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It seems to me that there are two distinct things which the English word ‘deceptive’ describes:
Information which leads someone to believe something false.
An action performed with the intent to present someone with deceptive information (in the first sense).
Your formalism is of the first sense, which is why it’s unintuitive that it does not take Bob’s beliefs into account.
Following is the outline of a simple formalism for the second sense:
Suppose we have two agents, Alice and Bob. Alice’s payoff is determined by the information she knows. For example, maybe she’s playing a game of poker.
Bob transmits some set of information to Alice. Alice recieves all but some subset of . Bob knows the value of , but cannot transmit any further information to Alice.
Then, Bob predicts Alice’s total utility over the rest of her life; we call the value of this prediction . Finally, he predicts what Alice’s total utility would be had all of been transmitted (i.e. if ); this prediction is called .
The information which Bob attempted and failed to transmit to Alice, , is deceptive (2) with respect to Alice if and only if .
I don’t think any one formalism can cover both senses. For one thing, it would need to represent the four possible states of “deceptiveness” as a binary “deceptive” property.
I think that it might be best to consider different terms to describe the two different senses of “deceptive.”
Thanks! As for why so many landing pages are like this, my best guess is that they’re optimized for purchasing decision makers who don’t really care about the actual product they’re buying, but do care a lot about higher level outcomes like “amazing customer experiences.”