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Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail"

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How to Optimize for the CEO and the CEO in a Large Complex System?

The problem that I'm trying to solve is the CEO, let's stipulate, has in their mind a complete understanding of what they would like everyone in the company to do. So right, we should use what works for AI more in a line of people. Can you not have any metrics at all, but instead you just have the CEO like quote unquote check the work of the upper managers below them by which he can look at 10% of those decisions and say, here's how I would have made that decision. And then in turn, the upper managers do the same with the middle managers below them. It's basically like a reinforcement learning, like it's propagating the CEO

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