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"As soon as you define a metric to measure a goal, the metric itself becomes the goal." I'm sure I'm mangling that quotation, but that's the phenomenon you're
by i_am_nomad 7y ago
"As soon as you define a metric to measure a goal, the metric itself becomes the goal." I'm sure I'm mangling that quotation, but that's the phenomenon you're describing, or at least a close relative of it.
- Majromax 7y agoYou're looking for Goodhart's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law): "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."