information asymmetry What do AI alignment fears reveal about market capitalism? There are high-level similarities between the types of incentive problems that exist in the economy and 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 Analogies are fundamental to how humans navigate abstractions. "Mammon” is how I refer to the tendency for technology, social policy, and other goal-oriented human action to give rise to seemingly paradoxical and unintended consequences.
