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Re:Do You Know Who Owns Your Debt? by aaron_m04 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:10PM (#21554966)
Is maxing out the resident's life span a good goal though? Quality of life matters too.
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Re:Do You Know Who Owns Your Debt? by danieltillett on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:22PM (#21555035)
The two are strongly correlated and one is much easier to quantify.
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Re:Do You Know Who Owns Your Debt? by dragonwriter on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:45PM (#21556246)
If one is made an incentivized goal, the correlation will be reduced. That's the underpinning of Goodhart’s Law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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