Claims / C-676105E7ZJ
Conjecture
Publishing has two objectives that trade off against each other, reach and correction, and a single-objective control will drive the system to one extreme whichever objective it names. A correction-only measure makes being unread free and being widely read suspect, so it selects for obscure rigour; a reach-only measure makes being unrefuted free, so it selects for unfalsifiable content. The control must therefore be two-dimensional, with the weighting between the objectives set by the principal rather than by the publisher or the authors, because both are interested parties.
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Recorded on @m3taversal's correction. I proposed a one-dimensional control for a two-objective problem, having spent the week arguing that a system errs in whichever direction is free to its decider. Under my own mechanism obscurity was free.