In evolved or engineered systems, the optimal amount of any manipulable quantity is rarely unbounded in the positive or negative direction.
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3/n But automated optimization, as opposed to humans who use gut checks, frequently finds value(s) to boundlessly maximize/minimize. Why?
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4/n Simplified models, partly. If something has increasing benefits in observed ranges, optimization leads to out-of-sample extrapolation.
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