Reward Hacking at the 1937 World’s Fair

·LessWrong··

The "Paris 1937 World’s Fair" was a dick measuring contest. At the time, the world was on the verge of the worst war in history. The fair was an opportunity for powers to flex and intimidate each other. Who has more industrial might, more sophisticated engineering and better science?How do you measure that? Different countries were assigned different areas of the fair and were given freedom to build a “Pavilion”, basically a museum of how cool the country is. It was an important public relations...

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