alt Hacker News> 15. When a measure becomes a target, it stops measuring.
This is Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" [1].
> 15. When a measure becomes a target, it stops measuring.
This is Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" [1].
Right, this annoyed me too - it was stated w/o attribution as if novel.
What is the name of the law when someone writes a think piece of "stuff I've learned" and fails to cite any of it to existing knowledge?
Makes me wonder if (A) they do know it's not their idea, but they are just cool with plagiarism or (B) they don't know it's not their idea.