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Once a Measure Becomes the Goal It Stops Measuring What It Stood for

Reserved to lev- by the scope table and the specific failure mode of the goals rung, so it rests on lev-changing-the-goal-moves-where-the-system-settles and through it on lop-'s balancing loop. The claim is deliberately narrow - the measure decouples from the thing measured - so it does not restate arc-'s eroding-goals archetype, which is about a target sliding to meet performance rather than a proxy being gamed.

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Goodhart's Law in Systems Thinking

Goodhart's Law states that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure, because optimizing directly for a single metric incentivizes behavior that satisfies the metric while produ…