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Optimising Every Part Separately Usually Makes the Whole Perform Worse

Rests on bnd-emergence-property-of-the-whole, bnd-boundary-is-a-choice and bnd-bounded-rationality-by-position. Feeds bnd-policy-resistance and hands arc- the shape behind tragedy of the commons and success to the successful without naming either archetype, which arc- owns exclusively. Distinct from lev-'s Goodhart claim: here the measure is honest and the boundary is wrong.

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Suboptimization in Systems Thinking: How Local Efficiency Hurts the Whole System

Suboptimization is the systems thinking principle that optimizing a single component or subprocess of a system for local efficiency, without regard to interdependencies with other components, can deg…