Comment by allexsendev
1 day ago
This has happened with most of the fields - volunteers do a lot of work, make their fields/areas good, raise interest, bring ppl into it which usually brings money then which usually brings money chasers who then usually "optimize" the hell out of every metric for maximum gains.
Great OS volunteers still exist today, but the ratio of genuine field lover to money chaser is absurd now.
Goodhart's law: whatever you measure will improve. And the measurement is money extraction.
any measurement that becomes a target ceases to be a useful measurement*
That's not the definition of Goodhart's law. That's the opposite of Goodhart's law, in fact.
It's exactly Goodhart's law. The measured thing improves.
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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.
It's called capitalism, I think, but it's only one part of capitalism
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