From other episodes
- The Principal Agent Problem is a specific subclass of the broader Goodhart's Law phenomenon.2026-03-09
- Every swarm has an emergent Goodhart's Law.2026-03-09
- There's a class of shortcuts that are good for the individual but bad for the collective.2025-11-17
- Optimizers will choose gains on the target metric at catastrophic cost to unmeasured externalities.2025-11-10
- James Evans gave a fascinating talk I attended this week.2025-11-10
- Hyper financialism is just Goodhart's Law.2025-11-04
- Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus".2025-11-04
- It's not that Goodhart's Law just so happens to find shortcuts.2025-10-27