{"id":4920,"date":"2012-11-10T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2012-11-10T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:37:27","slug":"when-you-optimize-on-a-single-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/when-you-optimize-on-a-single-metric\/","title":{"rendered":"When you optimize on a single metric&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>When you optimize on a single metric under competitive circumstances, you get this effect: Look at the strongest man in Olympic history, the late Vassily Alexeiev; he was the best at lifting piece of metal over his head. In a natural environment he would have starved from an inability to catch a prey. Now think of the same optimization in other domains and you will see what I mean by the debasement of humans by commoditized academia and competitive sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=428122340576209&amp;id=13012333374\"><img src='http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/alexeiev11.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=428122340576209&amp;id=13012333374\">When you optimize&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you optimize on a single metric under competitive circumstances, you get this effect: Look at the strongest man in Olympic history, the late Vassily Alexeiev; he was the best at lifting piece of metal over his head. In a natural environment he would have starved from an inability to catch a prey. Now think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4927,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}