anon895 comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Alexandros 10 May 2010 01:25PM

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Comment author: Unnamed 10 May 2010 04:17:46PM 5 points [-]

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).

Comment author: anon895 13 May 2010 05:49:11PM 0 points [-]

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.