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gepr

This article was very interesting:

IQ Shredders
https://web.archive.org/web/20180222152845/http://www.xenosystems.net/iq-shredders/

I don't really buy the story it's telling. But it strikes me as a particular example of Goodhart's Law <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law> or the related Cobra Effect Jochen recently linked. And it's reminiscent of myopic optimization.

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