gwern comments on Stanford Prison Retrospective - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Prismattic 14 July 2011 01:23AM

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Comment author: gwern 14 July 2011 11:02:34PM 2 points [-]

Which leads to some interesting problems for anyone who accepts the results but interprets them as self-selection - if 'power attracts the corruptible', then how do you fill positions of power?

Comment author: Vaniver 14 July 2011 11:51:12PM 2 points [-]

Why, with your close personal relations.

Seriously, you try and make corruption costly. Make the uniforms in your casino have no pockets. A system that can do well enough with bad apples is generally more robust than a system that needs good apples.