blogospheroid comments on The Importance of Goodhart's Law - Less Wrong

75 Post author: blogospheroid 13 March 2010 08:19AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 13 March 2010 12:03:26PM 1 point [-]

Ah, sorry. I've read the post as saying something different from what it actually says.

Comment author: blogospheroid 15 March 2010 06:11:27AM 1 point [-]

Good discussion.

The point I wanted to make was about Extrapolated volition as a strategy to avoid Goodhart's law issues. If you extrapolate the volition of a person towards the "person he/she wants to be" and put a resulting goal as G*, it will be pretty much close to G as can be. I presented CEV as an example, since the audience is more familiar with it.

And FAWS, your definition of G and G* in the friendliness scenario is perfect. I've nothing more to add there.