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I really don't think there's that much alignment in organizations in the sense you're speaking of. While it's nice to think that these places are acting in best interests of blahblahblah - I think selfish interests hold true more often than not and accountability is basically nigh impossible in our world.

We have so many people who have been abusing people in so much worse of ways than "write me a report on Russia" and they have little to no accountability.

The public doesn't care about how a company is managed - they care about the share price going up so they make their money.




> The public doesn’t care how a company is managed - they care about the share price going up so they make their money.

Thats like saying you don’t care about the fridge temperature of a restaurant, you care how quickly they get you your chicken Kiev.

> I don’t think there is much alignment…

Considering the fact that deepmind spends a significant amount on AI safety, a misalignment between their leadership and human values seems pretty concerning.


>a misalignment between their leadership and human values seems pretty concerning

I mean this is what it boils down to. Does your self assessment of your value align with your bosses assessment, and if not, then who's wrong?

I've been guilty of assigning tasks to employees just to keep their hands off of another area of a project.

At that point in time, their best value to me was being busy with something else.




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