wiki/goodhartslaw

Goodhart's law

Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
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as defined by Charles Goodhart
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=OMe6UQxu1KcC&pg=PA111&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

@eigenrobot tweeted
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1207834039429632001
Goodharts law is more powerful than even i imagined


Democracy

Borges (allegedly) said
https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
Democracia: es una superstición muy difundida, un abuso de la estadística.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb tweeted
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1294704591972577281
Democracy: representation by a very narrow selection of people whose principal attributes & skills are that they are very, very good at being elected.


Grass fed organic

Nigel Best @NigelBest5 tweeted
https://twitter.com/NigelBest5/status/1204941072415113217
Moore’s Law applied to co-option of labels and descriptions in ag. Every time a novel label is applied to a practice/ food stuff, it is co-opted in half the time of the previous co-option. Labels are useless.

He was quoting White Oak Pastures @whiteoakpasture who quoted Will Harris:
https://twitter.com/whiteoakpasture/status/1204476668284428288
"Product Greenwashing Is Destroying The Regenerative, Humane, and Rural Community Building Farm Movement." -- Will Harris


SEO

Sari Azout @sariazout wrote
https://twitter.com/sariazout/status/1294266373212975110
I miss the old days of the Internet when a Google search led to discovering personal blogs and hidden gems instead of results manufactured by SEO marketers.

https://elliott.computer/pages/exploring-the-vastness-of-a-website.html


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@eigenrobot tweeted
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1212257122013958145
When you have more data easy to get Goodharts law in all things