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Re:Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rat... by grej on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:59PM (#36975423)
I'm reminded of Goodhart's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

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Re:Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rat... by XorNot on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:01PM (#36975468)
I feel like the corrollary to that would also be that measures invariably become targets over a long enough timespan.
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