Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy
Idea to Value
AUGUST 10, 2021
Essentially, when targets are set, they can no longer be used as a way to measure progress or success, since people will adjust their performance and processes to simply meet those specific targets. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die.
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