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This also goes for Goodhart's law itself



This is indeed funny, but the 'tribune' role of finding bad law/process and advocating for its removal is missing from most government, corporate or otherwise, and that's bad.

It is in fact the same phenomenon as treating +SLOC as a proxy for productivity. When everyone is rewarded for adding process, but it isn't anyone's job to remove it, a system inevitably ends up with too much process.




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