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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I think this just comes down to human nature. Give people (engineers, execs) a metric that looks like a good proxy for performance and they will overcommit on that metric as it is a safer bet than thinking outside the box. I think the incremental improvements in deep learning with all those benchmarks are a similar situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law