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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

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Examining Goodhart’s Law and the Problem with Objective Metrics

Good Heart's Law states that every metric that becomes an objective ceases to be a good metric/nThe paper 'Death by Round Numbers and Sharp Thresholds' investigates discontinuities in biomarkers and finds that a biomarker that becomes an objective ceases to be a good biomarker/nA biomarker used as a treatment decision becomes inversely correlated with risk because it is used to induce treatment/nA single metric without the ability to revise will cease to be a good metric once it becomes a solid objective

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