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Re:Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get mo... by mola on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:54AM (#24350382)
If there's an algorithm in charge of optimizing, it will be gamed. If there's a single algorithm controlling a large population, it'll be catastrophically gamed.
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Re:Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get mo... by piva00 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:22AM (#24351763)
There is a more general rule than that, I would tie that to Goodhart's law/adage "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

It's similar here, when an algorithm is in charge of optimisation it has its heuristics, they will be gamed as they are measures that became a target.

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