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Hi!
I'm a co-founder of the AI Objectives Institute. We're pretty interested in the critical view you've formed about what we're working on! We think it's most likely that we just haven't done a very good job of explaining our thinking yet -- you say we have a political agenda, but as a group we're trying quite hard to avoid having an inherent object-level political agenda, and we're actively looking for input from people with different political perspectives than ours. It's also quite possible that you have deep and reasonable criticisms of our plan, that we should take on board. Either way, we'd be interested in having a conversation, trying to synchronize models and looking for cruxes for any disagreements, if you're open to it!
Our first public communications probably over-emphasized one aspect of our thinking, which is that some types of bad (or bad on some people's preferences) outcomes from markets can be thought of as missing components of the objective function that those markets are systematically optimizing for. The corollary of that absolutely isn't that we should dismantle markets or capitalism, but that we should take an algorithmic approach to whether and how to add those missing incentives.
A point that we probably under-emphasized at first is that intervening in market systems (whether through governmental mechanisms like taxes, subsidies or regulation, or through private sector mechanisms like ESG objectives or product labeling schemes) has a significant... (read more)