Goodhart's law
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Goodhart's law states that once a certain indicator of success is made a target of a social or economic policy, it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.
Blog posts
- Markets are Anti-Inductive
- The Importance of Goodhart's Law by blogospheroid
- Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems by Alexandros
See also
- Groupthink, Information cascade, Affective death spiral
- Adaptation executers, Superstimulus
- Signaling, Filtered evidence
- Cached thought
- Modesty argument, Egalitarianism
- Rationalization, Dark arts
- Epistemic hygiene
- Scoring rule