information asymmetry What do AI alignment fears reveal about market capitalism? Capitalism's misincentives won't create Skynet but resemble optimization problems AI programmers face.
Mammon When optimization goes wrong: Caught in Mammon’s Grasp We return to my metaphor for maloptimization, or optimization failure, to describe different ways optimization processes often go wrong.
Mammon Beyond greed: Mammon as an analogy for maloptimization and wicked problems “Mammon” is my name for the tendency of technology to give rise to seemingly paradoxical and unintended consequences.
