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As Goodhart's law states, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". From an organizational management perspective, one way to partially
by nradov 9mo ago
As Goodhart's law states, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". From an organizational management perspective, one way to partially work around that problem is by simply adding more measures thus making it harder for a bad actor to game the system. The Balanced Scorecard system is one approach to that.
https://balancedscorecard.org/ https://balancedscorecard.org/
- waldopat 9mo agoAgreed, Goodhart’s Law captures the failure mode well intentioned KPIs and OKRs may miss, let alone agentic automation
- gamma-interface 9mo agoThis extends beyond AI agents. I'm seeing it in real time at work — we're rolling out AI tools across a biofuel brokerage and the first thing people ask is "what KPIs should we optimize with this?" The uncomfortable answer is that the most valuable use cases resist single-metric optimization. The best results come from people who use AI as a thinking partner with judgment, not as an execution engine pointed at a number. Goodhart's Law + AI agents is basically automating the failure mode at machine speed.