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Root cause is a vague term. What's the root cause of people being corruptible, and how do you fix that?
by majormajor 7y ago
Root cause is a vague term. What's the root cause of people being corruptible, and how do you fix that?
- irrational 7y agoPut them in prison?
- ilammy 7y agoThey did, even issued them uniforms.
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoI know Hacker News isn't usually a fan of Humor, but that comment made my day.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThere are many technically correct answers. The fire triangle shows that a root cause is not a singleton. 1. Them being alive. Obvious fix but not useful or moral. 1a. The less omnicidal but potentially more niche in practice answer is "get humans out of the loop" - that worked quite successfully with automated phone switchboards. 2. Their incentives being misaligned with the nominal goal. The easiest fix there is a "sarcastic AI" goal of making the corruption the explicit legal goal aligning them. 3. Lack of effective oversight - they can only be corrupt if they can get away with it without sufficient negative consequences. Certainty and speed is more important than magnitude and not being enough to be worth doing anyway in spite of punishment. 3a. Enforcement in practice suffers from "turtles all the way down" with who watches the watchers. Transparency and multilateralism can help but well international law is only a series of guidelines because of it being multilateral between powers.