Re: AI for Understanding Human Goals

Paola,

I run a virtual networking group for business strategists which meets
weekly to discuss issues of interest.

A few weeks ago we discussed the topic of transparency versus secrecy in
business strategy. You can see some summary notes of the discussion at
https://www.stratnavapp.com/Articles/transparency . Although we focused on
business strategy, I am sure you can extrapolate much of it to goals in
general.

The conclusion, if you don't want to read the whole thing:

   - Whilst there are many advantages in transparency, there may be
   commercial or legal/regulatory reasons for maintaining some secrecy.
   - Where we have discretion there may be a balance to be struck. The
   right balance will depend on the degree of alignment between the different
   stakeholder groups.

I am sure we'd all love to live in a world where everyone shares and works
in harmony towards common goals. But the truth is that the world is more
messy than that.

Kind Regards,
Chris


On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 05:39, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com> wrote:

> Owen, I have had some realization that leads me to reconsider
> Sharing goals and strategies works in cooperative environments, while
> much of the world we live in is adversarial, in some cases, viciously so
> When we expose our goals and strategies, it turns out someone out there
> may have
> made their goals and strategy to outsmart you, and you are providing them
> the means
> for the to do so
> I never thought this would be possible, I never thought someone would make
> their sole goal in life
> to prove me wrong, but looking back I suspect it has happened, and still
> happens today
> The more I am hones and open, the more someone leads me into exploiting
> these feautures to achieve their goal
> which is to prevent me from achieving my goals . It took me a lifetime to
> figure out.
> So let me think again :-)
>
> Lets share our goals and strategies only within certain boundaries, and in
> the meantime
> I think keeping our personal goals closely guarded in our hearts works
> best, although
> surely someone may try to steal them as well
>
> :-)
>
> Let me think
>
> PDM
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:22 AM Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Paola, while "adequacy" depends upon subjective judgment, it seems to me
>> that documenting human goals in open, standard, machine-readable format
>> might be a good step along the way toward deciding where we'd like to go
>> next.
>>
>> Conversely, it seems to me that failing to do so leaves us hung up in a
>> pointless Do Loop.
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> On 1/26/2021 10:57 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:
>> > when it comes to stratml, is it adequate to represent human goals?
>>
>

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