I want to agree with you, but I feel like whenever I come up with an example of someone who is high prestige and fits >3 of your 4 criteria, I can think of someone equaly-ish high prestige who is maybe only fulfilling one or none of them. I’ve been wondering about how to study or prove these claims about prestige in the community in less subjective way (although I don’t know how important it would be to actually do this)
Yeah I don’t think it seems important to be sure about how exactly social status might be misaligned with expected impact—I think we should assume that this kind of misalignment will exist by default because people are irrational, and as long as we recognise this we can mitigate the harmful effects by trying to avoid optimising for social status.
I want to agree with you, but I feel like whenever I come up with an example of someone who is high prestige and fits >3 of your 4 criteria, I can think of someone equaly-ish high prestige who is maybe only fulfilling one or none of them. I’ve been wondering about how to study or prove these claims about prestige in the community in less subjective way (although I don’t know how important it would be to actually do this)
Yeah I don’t think it seems important to be sure about how exactly social status might be misaligned with expected impact—I think we should assume that this kind of misalignment will exist by default because people are irrational, and as long as we recognise this we can mitigate the harmful effects by trying to avoid optimising for social status.