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Dagon comments on [Link] Small-game fallacies: a Problem for Prediction Markets - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 28 May 2015 06:37:00AM 2 points [-]

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay (and/or others.)

Seems a pretty straightforward extension of Goodhart's Law. Every measure is an incentive, with all the alignment and agency problems that come along with it.

Comment author: torekp 31 May 2015 10:52:16AM 2 points [-]

The Alan Kay quote reminds me of my thermo prof saying, "Engineers love to control a process. That way, we don't have to understand it." I've always loved that one, but Alan Kay says it better.