Fallacies are about ways of reasoning and not the results of it. What you are talking about here is more a result of reasoning that might be right or wrong.
While as Douglas W. Hubbard shows that you can always make up a measurement he doesn’t demostrate quantitatively that people who follow the heuristics he advocates as actually making decisions that lead to higher utility then people who don’t follow his heuristics of measuring everything. His argument is completely qualitative in nature. This should make the reader a bit suspicious ;)
You also haven’t quantified a single variable in your post.
Its possible that he’s right. It’s also possible that if people would do what he advises they would Goodhart on metrics that lead them to make worse decisions.
On the subject of the value of a human life, Agnes Callard’s interview with Tyler Cohen is quite insightful. In it Tyler brings up how economist think they need to put a number on the value of a human life to make decisions about which safety regulations should be passed and Agnes shows quite easily how that’s false and likely duo to economists simply being ignorant of the underlying philosophical matter.
Fallacies are about ways of reasoning and not the results of it. What you are talking about here is more a result of reasoning that might be right or wrong.
While as Douglas W. Hubbard shows that you can always make up a measurement he doesn’t demostrate quantitatively that people who follow the heuristics he advocates as actually making decisions that lead to higher utility then people who don’t follow his heuristics of measuring everything. His argument is completely qualitative in nature. This should make the reader a bit suspicious ;)
You also haven’t quantified a single variable in your post.
Its possible that he’s right. It’s also possible that if people would do what he advises they would Goodhart on metrics that lead them to make worse decisions.
On the subject of the value of a human life, Agnes Callard’s interview with Tyler Cohen is quite insightful. In it Tyler brings up how economist think they need to put a number on the value of a human life to make decisions about which safety regulations should be passed and Agnes shows quite easily how that’s false and likely duo to economists simply being ignorant of the underlying philosophical matter.