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		Filligree on Nov 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s l... I doubt it affects your central claim, but do note that a lot of pasture land is unusable for anything else.

Aicy on Nov 11, 2022 [–]

Unfortunately, in practice, the opposite is true.

We grow food, such as grains, just to feed it to cattle which has 1% of the calorie efficiency. For example in the EU 63% of arable land is used to grow animal feed rather than food directly for humans.

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