Quotes

“No, it’s not The Incentives - it’s you”

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” (a.k.a. Goodhart’s Law)

“these and almost all your communications will be useless to me unless you can propose some practicable way or other of supplying me wth Observations .. I want not your calculations but your Observations only”

“Artificial intelligence is sort of the end goal of computer science. Computer science is about automating stuff, and artificial intelligence is about automating everything.”

“It is sometimes considered a paradox that the answer depends not only on the observations but on the question; it should be a platitude”