By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026Transpose this failure mode onto states, bank managers and landlords, and we see whole ranges of policies, businesses and activities that never come into existence, despite the popularity, prosperity and joy they might bring us. 69/ 1532
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026But Leek doesn't end with this worrisome note. Instead, she identifies this whole thing - model collapse, placelessness, performativity, even Goodhart's Law - as an expression of one of the best-understood tradeoffs in computer science: "exploration vs exploitation": 70/ 1474
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026> Any system learning from feedback has to divide its effort between exploiting what already scores well and exploring options it hasn’t tried, in case they’re better. 71/ 1545
