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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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In their paper, Farrell and Shalizi cite Ben Recht's maxim that "you can’t optimize a trade-off":
https://www.argmin.net/p/are-there-always-trade-offs
But of course, we optimize trade-offs all the time.
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2026-05-13T16:06:19.900Z