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You get what you measure. We get publications.


The follies of human organizations since time immemorial summed up in a single point.


I feel like this saying would be better phrased as, "you get what you reward," because as long as you don't directly incentivize the metric it can still be useful.


“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law




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