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

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

#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

This is a classic case of be careful what you wish for. PIs always want to see more publications from their labs. Institutions and funding agencies want to see more publications from their PIs.Now we've got lots more papers, and we realize it's a mess. #GoodhartsLaw