paper-machine comments on True numbers and fake numbers - Less Wrong

19 Post author: cousin_it 06 February 2014 12:29PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 February 2014 09:21:22PM 2 points [-]

Heh, I suppose that is one of the alternative readings of my handle.

Someone who ... publishes four papers a year of poor quality, which are occasionally cited, but only by direct colleagues....

Only four? Why, I know some (who will remain nameless) that published eight or ten papers last year alone.

But of course Goodhart's law ruins everything.