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Eugine_Nier comments on The Stable State is Broken - Less Wrong Discussion

57 Post author: Bakkot 12 March 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 March 2012 11:14:32PM 2 points [-]

it might help to explicitly punish self-promotion or explicitly reward competence.

The problem is that then you have to keep the "reward and punish" system itself from corrupting.