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Cat Hicks on Nostr: First of all I actually think people usually mean to reference behavioral incentive ...

First of all I actually think people usually mean to reference behavioral incentive change, in which case you should say Campbell's Law probably; second of all neither of these "laws" ever meant that measurement can't be meaningful

"So the message of Goodhart’s Law is that if you’re setting targets, they ought to target the thing that you care about, not something which you believe to be related to it, no matter how much easier that intermediate thing is to measure."