Vasco Grilo comments on Adding important nuances to “preserve option value” arguments

[Vasco Grilo]

Thanks for writing this, Michael. Somewhat relatedly, I really liked this episode of The 80,000 Hours Podcast with Brian Christian.

We tend to think of deciding whether to commit to a partner, or where to go out for dinner, as uniquely and innately human problems. The message of the book [Algorithms to Live By] is simply: they are not. In fact they correspond – really precisely in some cases – to some of the fundamental problems of computer science.