[ExI] The ugly Neanderthal

[Anton Sherwood]

 > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:33 PM Anton Sherwood wrote:
 >> I wonder: if you were to repeat the Belяev fox experiment,
 >> but selecting for some irrelevant feature of the domestication
 >> syndrome (e.g. white spots) rather than for tameness, would tame
 >> animals result?

On 2020-12-12 01:17, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat wrote:
 > ### Probably yes, [....] However, as always when you select for a
 > proxy, the selective effect on the true target trait will be weaker,
 > or unreliable, compared to direct selection for the target trait.

Yes, one must keep in mind Goodhart's Law:
	When a measure becomes a target,
	it ceases to be a good measure.

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