"Humans approximating human taste preferences perform worse on the validation set". It's a sort of lazy argument that one can imagine a homo economicus which m

"Humans approximating human taste preferences perform worse on the validation set". It's a sort of lazy argument that one can imagine a homo economicus which might might better decisions on a proxy variable, less lazily, bemoaning that they don't optimize the authors' preferred measurables. It shows self-awareness at times > It is worth noting, however, that the algorithm in the study was designed to optimize system-wide utilization rather than individual driver income. > The algorithm’s design weakens any conclusion about algorithm aversion, for individual drivers may have been better off optimizing > for themselves rather than the system. It has the air of a future cudgel. The title works as a punchline, and as for the strength of the argument, well it's published (posted at all) online, isn't it.