A Red Queen’s Race is an evolutionary competition in which absolute position does not change. The classic example is the arms race between foxes and rabbits that results in both becoming faster in absolute terms, but the rate of predation stays fixed. (The origin is Lewis Carrol: “It takes all the running you can do, just to stay in the same place.”)
A Red Queen’s Race is an evolutionary competition in which absolute position does not change.
You mean relative, not absolute.
I’ve also seen a more general interpretation: the Red Queen situation is where staying still (doing nothing) makes you worse off as time passes; you need to run forward just to stay in the same place.
I think this is analogous to what’s happening here—you create better incentives, they create better ways to get around those incentives, nothing changes. I didn’t know that this wasn’t the common usage, as I got it from this Overcoming Bias post:
I believe this is called a “red queen race”
This is not correct, at least in common usage.
A Red Queen’s Race is an evolutionary competition in which absolute position does not change. The classic example is the arms race between foxes and rabbits that results in both becoming faster in absolute terms, but the rate of predation stays fixed. (The origin is Lewis Carrol: “It takes all the running you can do, just to stay in the same place.”)
You mean relative, not absolute.
I’ve also seen a more general interpretation: the Red Queen situation is where staying still (doing nothing) makes you worse off as time passes; you need to run forward just to stay in the same place.
Yes, yes I did. Thanks for the correction.
I think this is analogous to what’s happening here—you create better incentives, they create better ways to get around those incentives, nothing changes. I didn’t know that this wasn’t the common usage, as I got it from this Overcoming Bias post:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/06/bias-is-a-red-queen-game.html