I wonder how many cases of Goodhart’s law could be mitigated by injecting some randomness in the decision system. This has already been proposed in the context of allocating research grants (e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33970719/), and could certainly also work for the Harvard admissions problem.
I wonder how many cases of Goodhart’s law could be mitigated by injecting some randomness in the decision system. This has already been proposed in the context of allocating research grants (e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33970719/), and could certainly also work for the Harvard admissions problem.