Hill climbing is super easy to execute, and has clear incremental value.
- Hill climbing is super easy to execute, and has clear incremental value.
- That means that all else equal, even if it's not the best move, it's likely to be the move you pick.
- Similar to the Politician's Fallacy: something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done.
- This might not be the most useful thing to do, but doing it has direct use, and therefore it is what I will do.
- "I don't know what to do, but at least I'm making number go up!"
- Before you know it, "make number go up" becomes everything.
- Its own emergent religion.