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Goodhart‘s Law in action. I wonder how we make a new measure that buys us more time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law



The backtick in your link broke it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

(Were you on mobile and using a smart keyboard?)


I manually added the comma on a mobile smart keyboard. :) Didn't know that doesn't work haha.


That damn ‘Smart Quotes’ misfeature is still causing havoc even after 30 years.


Nitpick: It's actually an apostrophe " ' ", not a backtick/grave accent " ` " or comma " , " :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#Use_in_programmin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma


Oh yes sorry I’m full of mistakes today. Of course, not a comma!




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