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kurthrtoday at 6:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

This goes in a necessary direction, from my personal take away of Gower's recent post on the subject.

Mathematics is suffering from Goodhart's Law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."


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lacedeconstructtoday at 7:59 AM

Doing something difficult was a signal that you:

a- understood it and all the background information it requires

b- internalized techniques and methods that are helpful in problem solving in general

Now it just means nothing

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vatsachaktoday at 8:17 AM

Timothy Gower