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Goodhart's Law
Make a measure the target and it stops measuring anything.
Make a measure the target and it stops measuring anything. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- Alignment
- Feedback Loops
- Gresham's Law
- Lucas Critique
- The Map Is Not the Territory
- The Orthogonality Thesis
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