The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
Developer Tea
English - January 04, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 395 ratingsTechnology Business Careers development programming web development Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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You want to measure what matters. But your measurements might change what matters.
Understanding that anything that is measured might modify behaviors, it's important to then understand what should be targeted. How can we incentivize the right actions that produce the side effects we want, rather than incentivizing direct manipulation of those side effects?