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I suppose this is synergistic with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law, "When a measure becomes a targ
by neonate 3y ago
I suppose this is synergistic with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
If having a metric attracts attention, and (suppose that) attention eventually makes it a target, and that makes it a bad metric, then you can't have any good metrics for long.
- hinkley 3y agoMy thesis is that 'for long' does not need to mean 'forever'. Take some metrics, focus on one or two for a while, then focus on different metrics, come back to the old ones in a year. There is plenty of precedent for this in athletics, and competitions of intellect. We just haven't connected the dots. If you focus on bench reps the whole year it's going to fuck up your performance. If you focus on opening moves all year, it's going to fuck up your chess. That doesn't mean never focus on them. But we are stuck in the fallacy of the excluded middle, so we think we have to do something all the time or not at all, which is just the dumbest fucking thing this entire profession has ever come up with. Worse than PHP.