Climbing the Wrong Hill

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derbOac · 2h ago

I think the problem with this analogy is that there are often externally imposed or other costs to ending up in a local minimum/maximum. I think this is how people (in the sense of society) should think about it, but in reality it's sometimes like there's a penalty for not finding the global minimum/maximum immediately.

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Climbing the Wrong Hill

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