Pothole open quotes repair close quotes partially filled to below the existing surface level trapping water and accelerating breakdown of the rest of the road surface.
Essex is rated green, given the appalling standard of this bodge near my house, #Deity help the rest of the country. I'm of the opinion that pot hole repairs are yet another demonstration of #GoodhartsLaw.
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With voting, there's the idea that the best way to evaluate rules is to check how close they are to what voters say their policy preferences are
With social networks, there's the idea that the best way to evaluate them is the level of engagement they're getting
#Goodhartslaw #MetricsTargets
Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:
“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...).
H/T: Dare Obasanjo
#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work
"Exits to permanent housing", while commonly reported and focused on, is a notoriously malleable and problematic metric — in part *because* focused on, per #GoodhartsLaw. It doesn't necessarily align much with many purported key outcomes i.e. health, stability, reported well-being of people unhoused
Each new solution changes the nature of the next challenge.
As smarter tools crack complex problems, the problems themselves adapt, becoming tougher, deeper, and more intricate.
That’s the feedback loop of innovation: progress constantly testing its own limits.
#GoodhartsLaw #DigitalEvolution
Again: Somewhere in the dim past of, like, 15 years ago, someone found a correlation between betting markets & real outcomes & turned it into a business model & now we have #bullshit like Polymarket predicting elections.
(Not sure whether this is a better example of #GoodhartsLaw or #CampbellsLaw.)
"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."
buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw
"AI – the ultimate bullshit machine" and why the right hates an educated public and teachers. From Cory Doctorow #GoodhartsLaw #inadequatefunding #blamepublicservants #DougFord #Canada #Ontario #education pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/f...
The problem of AI tech companies gaming their Chatbot Arena scores
youtu.be/9W_OhS38rIE
#generativeAI #AIslop #AIhype #ArtificialIntelligence #GoodhartsLaw
#StreisandEffect
#StiglersLaw
#DunningKruger
#BackfireEffect
#GoodhartsLaw
#TrivialityEffect
#AgendaSetting
#InformationCascade
#ThirdPersonEffect
#HitchensRazor
#SapirWhorf
Bottom line:
Goodhart’s Law shows what happens when we treat numbers like truth.
Metrics matter — until they don’t.
And in the gap between meaning and measurement, disinfo thrives.
#GoodhartsLaw #CognitiveBias #ThreadSeries #Disinformation
🧵 14. Goodhart’s Law: When Measuring Becomes Cheating
The more you focus on a number, the more it stops meaning what you think it means.
That’s Goodhart’s Law.
And it explains a lot about broken systems, bad incentives, and disinfo.👇
#GoodhartsLaw #Disinformation #ThreadSeries
A black squirrel in a tree says “Has anyone considered the implications for Al of Goodhart's Law?”
#SquirrelMeme has been wondering what happens when a program is rewarded for hitting a quantitative measure rather than for achieving the actual qualitative task. 🤖⚡️ #GoodhartsLaw
When you’re trying to get through a list of tasks as quickly as possible, few things are more annoying than one item that requires actual care and attention. #irony #goodhartsLaw
I keep saying it:
The metric is not the goal. A metric is a milepost to measure progress toward a goal. #GoodhartsLaw
