This places the line between what can and can't be measured in an odd place, is always my problem with it https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1141350267960664064 …
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It's better in our case than for governments though because the company actually cares about a clear measurable objective in the end (and we experiment Relentlessly) whereas (i) politicians care about reelection and (ii) a society has no clear long term objective
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Which is one of Ackoff's insights: Give a manager a target on a metric, and he'll meet that target, even if it costs the business to do so.
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Okay, I feel like I'm on the same page now at least (my mutuals are so smart and so polite that that they speak obliquely and subtly and sometimes I go charging in the wrong direction) So, I agree strongly that the quantitative measurement used for corporate/econ decisonmaking
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can throw real people under the bus and that in general it leads to epistemic corruption &c. &c. all well and good but I don't think this captures the full breadth of the problem at least as a moral issue (what ought we do to profit without hurting others, e.g.) because
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Tangentially related, but with Trumps bragging of the jobs increase, I wonder whether how much of this increase in metric (if any) is due to people taking on multiple part-time jobs, rather than focusing entirely on a full-time one.
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oh plausibly macroeconomic data have never not been fucked
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