Benquo comments on The Craft And The Community: The Basics: Apologizing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 23 November 2013 11:08:05PM 2 points [-]

Goodhart's law is the tendency, when using a proxy to measure a desideratum, to optimize for the proxy, rather than the desideratum.

In this case, the desideratum is feeling genuine regret about harming others, and the proxy is apologizing.