> 15. When a measure becomes a target, it stops measuring.

This is Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" [1].

Right, this annoyed me too - it was stated w/o attribution as if novel.

What is the name of the law when someone writes a think piece of "stuff I've learned" and fails to cite any of it to existing knowledge?

Makes me wonder if (A) they do know it's not their idea, but they are just cool with plagiarism or (B) they don't know it's not their idea.

	▲	chaboud 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know if there's a named law, but the word for not knowing and believing that something remembered is a novel idea is "cryptomnesia". Knowing that you know something by teaching is Feynman's method of understanding. Basically, on scanning, I don't particularly disagree with the content of the post. However, treating these things (many of which regularly show up here on HN) as being due to "14 years at Google" is a little misplaced. But, hey, it's 2026, CES is starting, and the hyperbole will just keep rocketing up and out.
	▲	euifii 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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