Comment by bigstrat2003
1 day ago
Goodhart's law is that the measured thing increases, not improves. Increasing may in fact be worsening.
1 day ago
Goodhart's law is that the measured thing increases, not improves. Increasing may in fact be worsening.
So if I measure accidents, accidents will increase?
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.