Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law
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Great that there is now a name to talk about this phenomenon. It plagues me to see that the school system seem to deteriorate from the ideals of the enlightenment to a mere cog-factory measured by expected economic value. Individual teachers can fight against it, but can’t have much power when the cause is systemic.