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Re:Too much efficiency makes everything worse by a9h74j on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:20AM (#33557858)
Is there any application of Goodhart's law to competing in elections?

"Getting a winning number of votes" seems to be one kind of metric.

How might a system adapt?

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Re:Too much efficiency makes everything worse by jaschasd on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:26AM (#33557881)
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Yes! The post actually talks about that a bit: how overfitting can result from treating "leaders that have the most support in the population" as a proxy for "leaders that act in the best interests of the population"; and some ideas for improving that with noise regularization or capacity restrictions.

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