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@annie @baldur Very reminiscient of Goodhart's law đź‘Ť

See also this excellent blog post by Jascha:

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law:

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html

This is transferable to so many domains and #society at large!

#Goodhart #Optimization #GoodhartsLaw

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law

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