This is a special post for quick takes by DragonGod. Only they can create top-level comments. Comments here also appear on the Quick Takes page and All Posts page.
Noticed my meagre knowledge of classical physics driving intuitions behind some of my alignment thinking (e.g. "work done by an optimisation process"[1]).
Wondering how much insight I'm leaving on the table for lack of physics knowledge.
[1] There's also an analogous concept of "work" done by computation, but I don't yet have a very nice or intuitive story for it, yet.