Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.5d agoPluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/24/degenerated-gambling/
Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:
“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Wda2.-3Rz1wP8LBVw&smid=url-share).
H/T: Dare Obasanjo
#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work
"Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."
This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.
#Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users
Measures are part of the system.
When you measure call handling time, you get shorter calls.
When you measure first-contact resolution, you get resolved problems.
The measure shapes the behaviour. Choose carefully.
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https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/
Richard Charkin on Goodhart’s Law: The Measurement Trap
In his newest column, Richard Charkin applies the principle that when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure to today's publishing industry.
The post Richard Charkin on Goodhart’s Law: The Measurement Trap appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/12/richard-charkin-on-goodharts-law-the-measurement-trap/
Predictably people are exploiting the AI summary bug added to meeting software to make sure their contributions are highlighted regardless of actual utility.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-summarization-optimization.html
These days, the most important meeting attendee isn’t a person: It’s the AI notetaker. This system assigns action items and determines the importance of what is said. If it becomes necessary to revisit the facts of the meeting, its summary is treated as impartial evidence. But clever meeting attendees can manipulate this system’s record by speaking more to what the underlying AI weights for summarization and importance than to their colleagues. As a result, you can expect some meeting attendees to use language more likely to be captured in summaries, timing their interventions strategically, repeating key points, and employing formulaic phrasing that AI models are more likely to pick up on. Welcome to the world of AI summarization optimization (AISO)...
"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."
From: blenderdumbass . org
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_goodhart_s_law_of_child_abuse
#goodhartslaw #childabuse #politics #paternalism #ageism #education
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