If you have some feedback loop based on those metrics, then the wiser amongst them might (will?) eventually figure that 1) you were not honest with your metrics and 2) they are being evaluated against some metric that is not defined to them. Now we are in Simulacrum Level 3, which in a way is the same level that would be reached with Goodhart’s Law.
Hiding metrics as a way of avoiding Campbell’s Law and Goodhart’s Law.
What if you weren’t 100% honest about telling people what metrics you were using? Wouldn’t that avoid much of the downsides of the 2 laws?
I suspect that contributes to these much more than avoiding them.
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If you have some feedback loop based on those metrics, then the wiser amongst them might (will?) eventually figure that 1) you were not honest with your metrics and 2) they are being evaluated against some metric that is not defined to them. Now we are in Simulacrum Level 3, which in a way is the same level that would be reached with Goodhart’s Law.