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		grej on Aug 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as ... 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."

XorNot on Aug 2, 2023 [–]

I feel like the corrollary to that would also be that measures invariably become targets over a long enough timespan.

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