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Hey, it's Goodhart's Law! "When a measure becomes a good target, it ceases to be a good measure." https://www.sketchplanations.com/image/167369765942 https://w
by da_chicken 7y ago
Hey, it's Goodhart's Law! "When a measure becomes a good target, it ceases to be a good measure."
https://www.sketchplanations.com/image/167369765942 https://www.sketchplanations.com/image/167369765942
- rrss 7y agoSee also Chapter 29 of Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering": http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEngineering.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn... You get what you measure.
- philwelch 7y agoAs they say, in the mneomic that I use to remember Goodhart’s Law, you end up getting that measure “good and hard”.