{"id":827,"date":"2026-11-09T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly-mathematics-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:03:46","slug":"the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly-mathematics-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly-mathematics-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly | Mathematics | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As optimisation becomes more powerful, avoiding these traps becomes more important. The challenge is not simply finding the best answer. It is deciding what \u201cbest\u201d really means \u2013 and knowing what not to optimise&nbsp;away.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/nov\/08\/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/nov\/08\/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As optimisation becomes more powerful, avoiding these traps becomes more important. The challenge is not simply finding the best answer. It is deciding what \u201cbest\u201d really means \u2013 and knowing what not to optimise&nbsp;away. \u2014 Read on www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/nov\/08\/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,213,38],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-optimization","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}