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Goodhart's law comes to mind: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
by ds0 8y ago
Goodhart's law comes to mind: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
- tCfD 8y agoExpect to see this, and/or its close cousin the McNamara Fallacy, among the top blogpunditry memes of the next few years. If only it were possible to buy stock in these phrases...
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago> If only it were possible to buy stock in these phrases... Quite. If I'd bought stock in that logical fallacy site that was doing the rounds a while back HN would've made me a billionaire by now.