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Thalia Toha's avatar

Argo-Thanks for sharing this. I particularly love the journey you took for the reader on things like Industrial Revolution, Goodhart's, and on initiating a review on standards of measurement. Great read. Hope you're well this week. Cheers, -Thalia

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Zan Tafakari's avatar

This was just fantastic Argo - a really deep and super well written piece on the perils of metricization. Of course, my favourite part was your discussion on optionality :) I never considered how wide-reaching Goodhart's Law actually penetrated until you laid out your piece like this. I particularly also enjoyed your conclusion - never thought of metricization adding layers of lies to what is actually real and true - but you're so right.

What do you think are solutions to pathological metricization, if any?

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