Lumifer comments on Open thread, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 November 2014 07:45:37PM 0 points [-]

it still is a bad thing to optimize for

Impacting the status quo is a fine thing to optimize for. Negative karma is a stupid thing to optimize for.

However I believe that here we are not talking about optimizing, but rather about warning signs.

Comment author: Azathoth123 21 November 2014 04:57:37AM 3 points [-]

Impacting the status quo is a fine thing to optimize for.

No, it's not. It is much easier to "impact the status quo" by making things worse than by making things better.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 November 2014 05:28:28AM 1 point [-]

Optimization implies that you picked a direction. Optimizing impact means optimizing not just magnitude, but magnitude of a specific sign.