Goodhart's Law

Concept

An observation stating that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Applied to education, where teaching to the test can undermine actual learning.

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Videos Mentioning Goodhart's Law

Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno

Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno

Latent Space

A principle discussed by Mikey Shulman, stating that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Applied to LLM benchmarking and the importance of aesthetics over purely quantitative metrics.

Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81

Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81

Lex Fridman

An observation that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure, applicable to reward function design in AI.

Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture

Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture

Conversations with Tyler

An observation stating that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Applied to education, where teaching to the test can undermine actual learning.