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Is there any application of Goodhart's law to competing in elections? "Getting a winning number of votes" seems to be one kind of metric. How might a system a

• jaschasd 4y ago
  (blog post author here) Yes! The post actually talks about that a bit: how overfitting can result from treating "leaders that have the most support in the population" as a proxy for "leaders that act in the best interests of the population"; and some ideas for improving that with noise regularization or capacity restrictions.