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Really interesting article. Got me pondering the extent to which the peacock’s tail is an example of overfitting and Goodhart's The female peacock is using the
by Angostura 2y ago
Really interesting article. Got me pondering the extent to which the peacock’s tail is an example of overfitting and Goodhart's
The female peacock is using the make peacock’s tail as a proxy for fitness - with beautiful consequences, but the males with the largest, showiest tails are clearly less fit
- RandomLensman 2y agoThere is research on costly signalling and evolution.