Seems like any dynamic system that studies itself and copies or imitates past success, roughly has this problem. just to pick two, I think sports and politics

Seems like any dynamic system that studies itself and copies or imitates past success, roughly has this problem. just to pick two, I think sports and politics both have this problem. where someone finds a new method and has success, everyone tries to copy it, only everyone trying to copy it bids up all the inputs, with higher inputs, the method has a different ROI. In dynamic systems, there's a curve you have to stay ahead of