The Aporia
3 articles about 3 events for “Philosophy on State Power” from Astral Codex Ten.
“…e correlated behaviors are useful and conditional (“seeking only the power and resources necessary for their human-prompted task, in a prosocial way”), this isn’t actually how reinforcement learning works, and instead we get a complicated distribution of…”
“…e was a highly complex rank system among the officials, and one’s standing was determined by factors such as birth and background, wealth, level of education and accomplishment, whether one had powerful supporters, and whether one was able to play their…”
“For one thing, deep and enduring declines in output are possible even outside of state-collapse scenarios.”