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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Goodhart's Law describes many phenomena. When Google first deployed Pagerank, they showed that how counting the inbound links to all the pages on the web let you extract a signal about which pages were most important (because there was no reason to link to a page unless you found it noteworthy).
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2026-08-12T09:51:05.440Z