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- Measuring Goodhart’s Law https://openai.com/blog/measuring-goodharts-law/ 7 comments
- Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law 134 comments
- Hacker Laws Update: Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#goodharts-law 121 comments programming
- Metrics used to measure academic success, such as the number of publications, citation number, and impact factor have become targets and follow Goodhart’s Law, according to which, “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" finds a study analyzing >120 million papers https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/8/6/giz053/5506490 79 comments science