Rules
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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Ahluwalia: AI bots may start overriding human-designed rules within a year
“And probably in some time, not very long, like six months, one year, there can be a bot that can say, Hey, this rule designed by the human is not good enough. So my job is to give the best outcome to the customer. So, so I'll build my own rules or ignore these…”
Parrish: Framing personal choices as strict rules stops external pressure
“And you follow those rules because, as Daniel Kahneman has said, it's easy to follow rules. Even yourself, you follow rules. Other people, if you say it's my rule, they'll just leave you alone.”
Duckworth: Personal rules probably work only when self-authored, not assigned
“I think that the rule on rules is probably that you should make up your own rules as opposed to like somebody exogenously handing you one.”
Explicit rules eliminate the need to evaluate every situation individually
“I like having rules because rules make us not think about each case specifically.”
Establishing explicit personal rules protects people from social pressure
“The moment you have a rule, you basically are elevating something for yourself and for other people. You're creating a standard from it and it helps you protect yourself.”
Gurfein: All organizational rules can be changed for operational success
“The first thing you learn is that All rules can be changed. There's a, there is that flexibility for success, and again, it's the peacetime bureaucracy versus the combat environment, where you have to be, you have to have that flexibility to recognize, like, y…”