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i call BS on this story
by dominotw 6mo ago
i call BS on this story
- elictronic 6mo agoThey polished the turd more than stating, but the bones are real.
- re-thc 6mo agoI call AI on this comment
- DANmode 6mo agoI don’t. Things that rhyme with this have indeed been happening at the biggest names.
- mrandish 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- aspensmonster 6mo ago>This article is about statistics and government policy. For Nazi analogies in internet discussions, see Godwin's law.
- zeroonetwothree 6mo agoI have seen similar at my company so it is highly plausible.
- mrgoldenbrown 6mo agoIf you've never seen this level of perverse incentive, you have been lucky. The creation of and subsequent exploitation of them aren't new. For pre computer examples: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-2/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-2/
- breppp 6mo agoThe worse example I know is the time the Belgians forced the Congolese to harvest more rubber by cutting their hands if they haven't reached the correct quota, ensuing a cross-tribe hands trading economy
- wayeq 6mo ago> cross-tribe hands trading sounds like they had some cross cutting concerns </dad>
- NicoJuicy 6mo agoBelgians had nothing to do with that, nor the then governement The king had a side biz
- breppp 6mo agoSimilar to the British in India, it was first controlled by some kind of company that benefitted the host country by extracting resources, and later on the host country took control. Belgium took control of Congo in 1908
- NicoJuicy 6mo agoIt was literally the king that wanted it as personal venture. Belgium took over because he was very/too bad ( you're right that the governement was involved, I stand corrected). Healthcare and infrastructure was then build too, but the relation was already scarred and well, it's not easy to reset everything.
- runako 6mo ago
- bensyverson 6mo agoI call unintended consequences on this KPI culture