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Goodhart's law
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michael_nielsen
on May 21, 2010
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michael_nielsen
on May 21, 2010
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Goodhart's original formulation is beautiful: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes"
Very loosely, it's an uncertainty principle for the control of social processes.
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Very loosely, it's an uncertainty principle for the control of social processes.