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   Sir Nedwood (ned@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 12:53:14 JST Sir Nedwood

   Just learned about Goodhart's Law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

   This explains a lot about how shit gets mismanaged. With everything to moar AI, to vote harder.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 12:53:14 JST iced depresso

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     @ned yeah there's the duality of what gets measured gets managed but a test is only valid once and has to be thrown away.
     
     some of the AI enjoyers have been noting that too. all the sudden these chinese models are acing tests left and right and... they are just training them to win the benchmark. it's not measuring anything.