Alignment by Incentive

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Outline

Examples from Kerr: what's actually being rewarded here?
Review our cards

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If Everyone Has Their Price, Are We Good?

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Hayek and Smith: collective order CAN emerge from individual motivation

Schelling: non-nefarious motives can generate nefarious outcomes

Review our several approaches to incentives - what's different? what's underlying same model? Is it natural? Cultural?

Kerr examples: what is actually being rewarded? how does that compare to intended incentives? What does this tell us about specifying rewards?

Show Amodei's boat? Return to reward hacking question.

Get at reward shaping ? Education? My example (in Obsidian?)

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Resources

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Kerr On the Folly of rewarding A while hoping for B

Smith Wealth of Nations

Hayek Cosmos and Taxis

Schelling Micromotives and macrobehavior.