September 16, 2019
If you want to understand why things go wrong in business, government, education, psychology, AI, and more, you need to know Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure.” In this episode, decision theorist David Manheim explains the dynamics behind Goodhart’s Law and some potential solutions to it.
Links
- David’s Twitter
- A Ribbonfarm blog post by David about Goodhart’s Law
- “Bureaucracy” by James Q Wilson