Goodhart's Law

Goodhart's law states that once a certain indicator of success is made a target of a social or economic policy, it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.

Blog posts

• Markets are Anti-Inductive
• The Importance of Goodhart's Law by blogospheroid
• Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems by Alexandros

See also

• Groupthink, Information cascade, Affective death spiral
• Adaptation executers, Superstimulus
• Signaling, Filtered evidence
• Modesty argument, Egalitarianism
• Rationalization, Dark arts
• Epistemic hygiene