Against Proxy Optimization

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Authors Sven Neth arXiv ID 2606.23597 Category cs.AI: Artificial Intelligence Citations 0
Abstract
I discuss conditions under which maximizing a proxy utility function is harmful and suggest this poses problems for applying decision theory.
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