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Tools like this exist because of people who don't take Goodhart's law seriously. Turn efficiency into a convenient metric, target that metric, and next thing yo
by causal 2y ago
Tools like this exist because of people who don't take Goodhart's law seriously. Turn efficiency into a convenient metric, target that metric, and next thing you know problems keep cropping up despite your efficiency numbers being so high!
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- makeitdouble 2y agoI think it's more a leftover of Taylorism, where you cut tasks into bits small enough to not need craft and have an army of untrained and exchangeable workers do it. Workers don't have enough agency to significantly pervert the metrics. They can cut corners and/or work slower, but that's not inherently related to the metrics, and there is no long term view for the workers in the first place.
- rudasn 2y agoScientific Management. It's one of those areas of study where one can easily miss the forest for the trees. It sounds so good, it must be right!