Fun short fiction story on how predictive systems whose predictions influence what they might predict might evolve: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwcyMEgLyd4C

Fun short fiction story on how predictive systems whose predictions influence what they might predict might evolve: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwcyMEgLyd4C3Dern/the-parable-of-predict-o-matic https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwcyMEgLyd4C3Dern/the-parabl... In this very theoretical scenario, left to its own (with its objective function "minimizing prediction error") Google Maps could end up making predictions that make traffic more predictable, without anybody being able to notice anything is going wrong. A similar concept could be applied to the infamous "Youtube algorithm" for predicting user interests, might end up just showing videos that make users more predictable