wedrifid comments on The Importance of Goodhart's Law - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 14 March 2010 06:33:30PM 2 points [-]

And do you think Goodhart's Law, as presented in the post, applies here? That is, we should expect that eventually people (through gaming the system) end up with high karma without that in fact reliably correlating with being valued members of the community?

Comment author: wedrifid 12 May 2011 08:50:47PM 1 point [-]

And do you think Goodhart's Law, as presented in the post, applies here? That is, we should expect that eventually people (through gaming the system) end up with high karma without that in fact reliably correlating with being valued members of the community?

What? You mean Karma doesn't reliably correlate with objective worth of the individual? Damn.