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Scott Garrabrant
Cited on this site for the 2017 LessWrong post Goodhart Taxonomy.
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“However, this is not a single phenomenon. I propose that there are (at least) four different mechanisms through which proxy measures break when you optimize for them.”Used in: A measure can break in four ways
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- Goodhart TaxonomySource
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