the-library-alcove:

esoteric-merit:

seelcudoom:

aphony-cree:

thatdiva:

Low-wage, part-time positions

“More” jobs shouldn’t be the goal

Making jobs people can live on and providing enough of them for everyone should be the goal

this is the problem with statistic victorys, they declare they win because look at all the jobs, but in the process they cut everything that we needed from the jobs, but they dont care, they got a good looking statistic

There’s a saying from computer science.

“Whatever you measure will improve. This is a warning”

Whether it’s metrics you’re applying to employees, or unit tests of AIs, or fulfilling statistical victories.

Want more lines of code written? Done, now no one writes short, snappy code and every if statement uses three different lines.

Want this neural net that’s learning how to walk to reach the furthest distance? Now it makes itself impossibly tall so that when it falls down, the top of it reaches further.

Want more jobs? Well, the finger on that monkey paw is curling up as you speak.

Goodhart’s Law

Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.