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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a Good Reason Why Mathematics Shouldn't Be?

Mathematically, it's a really good at tracking qualities that are abstractable. And abstraction involves a kind of similarity across different contexts. The things that are really hard to pick up, for what I can tell, are like problems and fixes that are incredibly variable between people in different contexts. That was one of the more amazing things I've heard in a very long time.

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