| ▲ | cowlevel a day ago |
| Goodhart's law: whatever you measure will improve. And the measurement is money extraction. |
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| ▲ | jonny2811 a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| any measurement that becomes a target ceases to be a useful measurement* |
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| ▲ | optimalsolver a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's not the definition of Goodhart's law. That's the opposite of Goodhart's law, in fact. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's exactly Goodhart's law. The measured thing improves. | | |
| ▲ | bigstrat2003 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Goodhart's law is that the measured thing increases, not improves. Increasing may in fact be worsening. | | |
| ▲ | cowlevel 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | So if I measure accidents, accidents will increase? | | |
| ▲ | allexsendev 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | interrupting your thread bcs what the law states directly is less interesting than what it puts the emphasis on: if maxing out measurement becomes the goal, it isn't measuring what it was supposed to. Take a concrete example - original point of schools/academia was education. Eventually grades started measuring education, and now grades are the goal instead of education. ppl started optimizing for grades by any means possible -> grades aren't good measure of education anymore. |
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| ▲ | palata a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is there a law that says "whenever something is profitable, people attracted to money will come for the money". And obviously, the best way to make money is not to build good tech. |
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