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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Seems pretty accurate for how the country is being run.
So many of the world’s problems can be explained through Goodhart’s Law.
Like AI. The only reason it exists is because we can’t measure understanding, only the proxy for understanding, which is text, which AI can generate copious amounts of. Goodhart’s Law.
Boom! Give me a problem and there’s a good chance that it exists because someone didn’t follow Goodhart’s Law.
Trees, or their repres_ent_atives solve a lot of problems indeed.
Modern problems require primitive solutions