Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
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Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law
Jascha Sohl-Dicksteinsohl-dickstein.github.ioGlobal variables distort the landscape by providing a layer of information shared by every object in every context. The result is that objects stop talking to each other and, instead, share information by setting global variables.