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Re:When Robustly Tolerable Beats Precariously Optimal by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:27AM (#39641310)
> but designing for robustness is something that needs fractal alignment at higher meta-layers of incentives to be sustainable

This is why I remain an engineer and nothing more. If this sentence ever became meaningful I guess I would have been over-promoted.

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Re:When Robustly Tolerable Beats Precariously Optimal by advael on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:09PM (#39644879)
lol okay I'll admit upon reading it again that that was a more verbose way to make that point than it needed to be

How about "prioritizing robustness and other kinds of long-termism need to be at least somewhat protected by the system of incentives they operate in to succeed"? I invoked fractal self-similarity there because I think you best protect long-termism by prioritizing long-termism in decision-making at scopes further out

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