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Comment by smusamashah

7 months ago

This also sounds similar to Goodhart's Law which states that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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cortesoft  7 months ago

I do think the two phenomenon are related... they both are caused when people fail to take into account the knock on effect of their actions

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