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Comments on: Goodhart’s Law https://hughmcguire.net/2008/01/16/goodharts-law/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mat https://hughmcguire.net/2008/01/16/goodharts-law/comment-page-1/#comment-5206 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:30:00 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/01/16/goodharts-law/#comment-5206 well, the correct solution (not mentioned in the post) is to construct more robust algorithms, i.e. that place more weight on ungameable data (similarly attribute little weight to questionable data), that behave well at the edge, and that penalize unwanted behaviour.

the laws of biology/physics/chemistry serve as good prototypes. eg you can’t game gravity, or death, or energy conservation.

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