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True, but the reason Goodhart's Law and/or the Cobra Effect even come into play is because of a lack of systems thinking / perspective at the functional level. (Badly-designed incentives also matter here).
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Sounds like I should ask you for feedback on my new revision of the below paper before I submit it, then.
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Metrics can be used well - they often aren't. And many of the issues created by their misuse can be addressed by better design. In case you haven't seen me mention it yet, here's my new paper on doing metric design more thoughtfully: mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/90649/1/MPRA_p
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