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The strong version of Goodhart’s law: as we become too efficient, the thing we care about grows worse.
"As an exercise for the reader, you can think about how the strong version of Goodhart’s law would apply to other efficiencies, like the ones in this list: personalized medicine, reducing slack in supply chains, raising livestock, etc.
"There are some good exercises for the reader here.
Goodhart’s law: when the measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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