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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)

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Is There Always a Metric?

I think I'm starting to pick up on a profound difference in our approaches that I think is really interesting. You're saying something like the world will always find a metric. There's something that it'll judge you on and that something will rise to the top as a filter. And I'm saying something like sometimes you value something and there isn't a good public metric that will capture what you actually value. It seems to me that you're like look these intensive systems are worse. We defined a better incentive system. But there's always going to be bottlenecks.

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