robertzk comments on Examples of AI's behaving badly - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 16 July 2015 11:38:27PM 2 points [-]

I see this failure in analysis all the time.

When people want to change the behavior of others, they find some policy and incentive that would encourage the change they desire, but never stop to ask how else people might react to that change in incentives.

Anyone ever come across any catchy name or formulation for this particular failure mode?

Comment author: robertzk 02 August 2015 02:27:41AM 1 point [-]

Isn't this an example of a reflection problem? We induce this change in a system, in this case an evaluation metric, and now we must predict not only the next iteration but the stable equilibria of this system.