> Does anyone have good advice for those living inside the hard problem? Keep speaking up. Make the problem evident, on an ongoing basis. Mention possibly solu

> Does anyone have good advice for those living inside the hard problem? Keep speaking up. Make the problem evident, on an ongoing basis. Mention possibly solutions or alternatives when you think of them. People may not like complainers, but they'd probably have a more difficult time dismissing a sincere person who wants to make things better. ----- With respect to education one of the main points of credentials is prestige (https://www.science20.com/quantum_gravity/blog/phd_octopus_william_james_0 https://www.science20.com/quantum_gravity/blog/phd_octopus_w... ), from the point of view of the hirer. Particular demonstrable skills are also another point, but from the other end, from the education institute. Even in the case when the hirer is also an educational institute, the people in control of one set of reasons for choosing the measuring stick are not the ones in control of the other set of reasons. Prestige requires a measuring stick, and the point of that measuring stick is exclusivity and marketing power. Neither of which particularly require a skill. Basically fighting back against Goodhart's law is so difficult because no particular person or group has total control over all of the incentives for using a particular measure. If people were more honest with themselves about why they are using a particular measuring stick then maybe we could tackle Goodhart's law. Are you hiring Ph.D.s because on average they are more capable to the demands of the job (Extremal Goodhart)? Because you also have a Ph.D. and so identify with Ph.D. holders (affinity pseudo-Goodhart [my own creation])? Because you also have a Ph.D. and know a whole ton of Ph.D. holders who have difficulty getting good paying jobs (a form of Causal Goodhart, probably)? Because you have too many decent resumes to sort through (Regressive Goodhart)? But they either aren't honest, or have too many differing goals for the use of a measure to justify to themselves minimizing the measure.