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

[!Quote] Once a measure becaomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

This quote actually came from Hoskin

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The invention of the rational self - Hoskin

Hoskin “The Awful Idea of Accountability” - the invention of measureable targets → you are arguing you can derive normative properties of the world with physical natural properties of the world - he says you can’t actually do this, there is something extra that you must account for