This is what inspired goodhart tweet. To finesse honor immune system, measurement actions must be learning actions twitter.com/sarahdoingthin
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To work, inspection/measurement must rely on environments that uncover unexpected facets of monitored behavior. Antimetrics basically.
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If it is simply new and penetrates process blindsight
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See coaching technique in "The Inner Game of Tennis" for example.
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Old technique, people froze up/did worse when they thought "my backswing is too high" or other such ceremonialized things
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In book's model, he trains by breaking that, like "focus on where the top of the racket is" (mindful-relevant distraction)
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That may be 1 kind (a Boydian ooda-hack). More generally, it's simply not "priced" by status calculus, a value non-sequitur
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Adaptive function of ceremonialization is automaticity. Feedback breaks that. The value is not worth cost of de-automating.
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Yeah... and the key is to make that a moving target, arm's race with cognitive ceremonialization forces.
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Unless of course, feedback can be be driven subconscious too...Csikzentmihayi's "autotelic" internalization of standards
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I don't think you need reward always. That defaults to pleasure principle.
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