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There's a similar story about dolphins who were trained to pick up any litter in their pool and give it to their trainer in return for fish. The dolphins began
by OscarCunningham 8y ago
There's a similar story about dolphins who were trained to pick up any litter in their pool and give it to their trainer in return for fish. The dolphins began to hide the trash and tear off pieces so that they could get multiple fish.
- kiallmacinnes 8y agoThat's pretty impressive! I wonder how long it took them to figure this out :)
- diggan 8y agoAlso shows the dangers of optimizing for metrics without thinking really hard about what kind of metric your optimizing for and what kind of side-effects it can have.
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- csomar 8y agoWould like to read more about that story?
- misnome 8y agoI think it’s this article, which I remember seeing here a few times: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.sci...
- barking 8y agoSame business model as DeBeers, control the supply of rubbish/diamonds.
- OscarCunningham 8y agoPresumably the trainers stopped rewarding the dolphins once they realised what they were up to.