Mammon On Chrematistics and societal problems We know simple metrics can’t work for complex problems. So why do we build systems that measure the wrong thing?
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.
