Has anybody tried to connect Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy to Goodhart's Law? I think the connection is: when a measure becomes a metric, it goes from measuring on-mission-ness to a proxy for org survival, and mission types cede ownership to org types cc
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Nice. Goodhart's Law implies that an explicit metric will be gamed in a manner different from the original intent. Org types will find a way to game the metric for survival purposes. They can now justify actions by objectively demonstrating how metric is achieved.
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I think it links most obviously via the connection to principle agent problems in general. Orgs are controlled by principles whose goal ISN'T org survival. However, the typical solution method for P-A involves metrics to align incentives, usually conditional on org survival.
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