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Goodhart's law comes to mind: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."



Expect to see this, and/or its close cousin the McNamara Fallacy, among the top blogpunditry memes of the next few years. If only it were possible to buy stock in these phrases...


> If only it were possible to buy stock in these phrases...

Quite. If I'd bought stock in that logical fallacy site that was doing the rounds a while back HN would've made me a billionaire by now.




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