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More like Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
by tomtomistaken 7y ago
More like Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
- austinjp 7y ago"What gets measured gets treasured."
- SI_Rob 7y agoand the corollary, "the uncountable is of no account"
- jjtheblunt 7y agoI'd never seen that, and it reminds me of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle somehow.
- marcosdumay 7y agoHeisenberg's principle says that when you measure one thing, you lose track of others. I guess it's kind of complementary to this (except that it applies to very different things, obviously).