The local minimum in behavior

It's the minimal place in what things work. Not necessity the best, it just means that something settled at the first place it worked.

People tend to throw noise into machine learning systems so they don't settle for the local minimum. We as humans also sometimes settle for the local minima.

PS.: Do not mix this with Calculus' local minimum

[#mcraney-yanss-218]: McRaney, David. “YANSS 218 – How Anxiety Hides in Our Unhealthy Habits, Why You Can’t Think Your Way out of It, and Science Says You Should Do Instead.” You Are Not So Smart, October 31, 2021. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/10/31/yanss-218-how-anxiety-hides-in-our-unhealthy-habits-why-you-cant-think-your-way-out-of-it-and-science-says-you-should-do-instead/.