3 stories tagged goodharts-law, newest first.
330 points by namlem | 282 comments
Substack essay by Paul Melman arguing that random selection (sortition) is needed to keep meritocratic institutions stable against gamed selection criteria.
706 points by feyman_r | 298 comments
Blog post by Jascha Sohl-Dickstein arguing that excessive optimization for proxy measures worsens outcomes, linking Goodhart's law to overfitting in machine learning.
458 points by atorok | 409 comments
A Medium blog post from Promaton offering a practical guide to building a measurement culture where KPIs don't override common sense.