My goal checklist: 20 Questions I would like to have answers to for all my goals

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Beeminder tends to be very susceptible to it

I very much disagree with this! Here’s an ancient Beeminder blog post arguing how robust Beeminder is to Goodhart’s Law:

Unintended Consequences

Also related, loopholes you can drive an ice cream truck through:

Ice Cream Truck Loopholes

[repeating from a weekly beemail] Sometimes Beeminder goals have loopholes, like you could dehydrate yourself to get your datapoint on your weight loss road (please don’t!). There are plenty of things like that and I probably shouldn’t think too hard about more examples. Sometimes loopholes like that can ruin a goal. But other times, ironically, such loopholes can be so blatant that they’re in no danger at all of ruining the goal. I call the latter ice cream truck loopholes. As in a loophole so…