Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy
Idea to Value
AUGUST 10, 2021
Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos.
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