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Every question beggs another. Münchhausen trilemma All definitions are (meta)circular. Because language is recursive.

• radford-neal 6y ago
  So far, in this brief comment and a brief comment above, you've mentioned Goodhart's law, the McNamara fallacy, and the Munchhausen trilemma. I know nothing of any of these. I think that you would communicate better if you avoided such references. I'd even venture to suggest that your internal thoughts might be improved by not shoving arguments into such pre-defined categories.
  • ukj 6y ago
    I like terseness. Just because you haven't heard of something it doesn't preclude it from being a well-indexed idea in human folklore. Google is your friend.
    • Iv 6y ago
      Goodhart's law/McNamara fallacy: when you put value in a measure, you create incentives to trick it. Here is aa equivalent statement, as terse and clearer, than the comment you made above.
      • ukj 6y ago
        So, would that same reasoning apply to putting value in human lives? Is that an incentive to trick the measurement?
        • Iv 6y ago
          Not really. I am proposing a theoretical solution to a philosophical problem. You are the one jumping to imagining how it could be implemented in a biased way.
          • ukj 6y ago
            I am not doing any of that. I am just using your own argument against you.
            • Iv 6y ago
              You are misconstructing my argument to create an artificial contradiction. Talk about an exercise in futility. If you see a flaw, please point it clearly.
  • radford-neal 6y ago
    I think you overestimate the amount of effort people are willing to go to in order to decipher a cryptic comment by someone called "ukj". Seriously. I'm trying to help you here. At present, you're just wasting your time.
    • ukj 6y ago
      Medice, cura te ipsum.