KPier comments on Beware of Other-Optimizing - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 01:58AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 09:00:03PM 1 point [-]

They are both part of a sequence on "Rationalist Communities". Other-optimizing is something that prevents healthy rationalist organizations from forming, since it's a mode by which managers sabotage the managed.

Comment author: ttt89 07 August 2011 12:26:27AM 1 point [-]

I'm new to this blog. Any advice on how I can better understand this author's deeply theoretical and intellectual ideas?

Comment author: KPier 07 August 2011 01:26:54AM 2 points [-]

Welcome to LessWrong! The sequences are the most systemic way to approach Eliezer's postings; if you have specific questions, you can raise them here or in the discussion section.