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I'd recommend including a link to the previous LW article The Importance of Goodhart's Law, which discusses this type of problem (gaming a proxy which imperfectly measures some concept).
Adding to that: I'd like to see it linked at the top rather than the bottom, possibly in a "Related posts:" line or something.