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Semantic Goodhart's Law: as a descriptive concept becomes prescriptive, its meaning starts to blur and expand, eventually becoming an empty placeholder for "good". In advanced stages its valence flips and eliminativism arises.
cf. rigorous, formal, optimal, causal, mechanistic
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