What if you try to maximize the applicability of Goodhart's Law to a given system?
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
do you *want* 32-ton tractors? because that's how you get 32-ton tractors
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Replying to @chaosprime
hmm. I kinda do want 32-ton tractors unless this is a reference I don't get in which case, unsure
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
the story is that the Soviet bureaucracy gave their tractor factories quotas in tonnage of tractors, and it was easier to make one heavy tractor than two lighter ones, so you wound up with tractors that sank into the ground file under lost purposes
9:44 PM - 15 May 2018
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