Ah, sorry for unclarity. The game I’m referring to is the one between the player who’s trying to game the rules, and the referee/rule-judging body that’s trying to avoid being Goodharted. The judging body can either “move first” by specifying the rules precisely, or “move second” by judging whether or not an action broke the rules according to illegible criteria. The latter is straighforwardly much harder to Goodhart. Or they can do a combination: I think of referees as doing a combination of these things, because they’re meant to interpret fixed, well-defined rules, but there’s still some room for judgment calls.
Ah, sorry for unclarity. The game I’m referring to is the one between the player who’s trying to game the rules, and the referee/rule-judging body that’s trying to avoid being Goodharted. The judging body can either “move first” by specifying the rules precisely, or “move second” by judging whether or not an action broke the rules according to illegible criteria. The latter is straighforwardly much harder to Goodhart. Or they can do a combination: I think of referees as doing a combination of these things, because they’re meant to interpret fixed, well-defined rules, but there’s still some room for judgment calls.
Ahhh, I see, yes that makes sense.