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Re:To Explain or to Predict? (2010) [pdf] by pitt1980 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:13AM (#17513723)
Seems like any dynamic system that studies itself and copies or imitates past success, roughly has this problem.

just to pick two, I think sports and politics both have this problem.

where someone finds a new method and has success, everyone tries to copy it,

only everyone trying to copy it bids up all the inputs, with higher inputs, the method has a different ROI.

In dynamic systems, there's a curve you have to stay ahead of

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