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Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Misalignment Between Incentives and the Public Interest in COVID
I've been reflecting on this like misalignment between the incentives of people forming policy, making decisions about what things are permissible and what aren't. And we can talk more about specific instances where I think things are going wrong. If there's an imbalance, if one side gets too powerful, then it's sort of a design, it's optimization loop is just like prevent harm. Then now you end up over preventing harm, but that actually creates all these unintended bad consequences. They're worse than the things prevented. Yeah. In fact, I saw this author as a lawyer and he argues that the way that they set up already violates the First Amendment because they're operating as government censors
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