古德哈特定律指出，当一个指标被用来衡量和驱动行为时，它往往会失去其原本的意义。本文探讨了古德哈特定律如何应用于现代环境中的人类欲望，并解释了为什么现代人通过操纵情绪来追求满足感，最终会导致适应性下降。

🤔 古德哈特定律指出，当一个指标被用来衡量和驱动行为时，它往往会失去其原本的意义。例如，如果将汽车的里程数作为衡量汽车性能的指标，那么工程师可能会为了增加里程数而将汽车放置在支撑物上，而不是真正让汽车行驶在道路上。

🤯 现代人类在追求满足感时，也存在类似的现象。情绪虽然不是适应性的直接衡量指标，但它们是进化出的驱动适应性行为的机制。然而，现代社会中，人们通过各种方式操纵情绪，例如通过社交媒体、娱乐和消费等，来获得短暂的快乐和满足感。

😥 这种情绪操纵行为会导致适应性下降。因为人们不再关注真正重要的目标和价值，而是沉迷于追求短暂的情绪刺激。就像汽车被放置在支撑物上，只是为了增加里程数，而没有真正行驶在道路上一样。

😔 为了避免陷入这种适应性下降的陷阱，我们需要重新审视情绪的作用，并关注真正重要的目标和价值。我们需要培养更深层的满足感，而不是仅仅追求短暂的情绪刺激。

💡 我们应该将注意力从外部刺激转移到内在目标和价值上，例如个人成长、人际关系、创造力和贡献等。这些目标和价值能够带来更深层的满足感，并促进真正的适应性发展。

Published on July 7, 2024 8:32 AM GMT

Goodhart's Law is an important principle about using a measure to drive action, and there are many examples of Goodhart's law and its importance in human affairs. This essay focuses on how Goodhart's Law applies to human desire in the modern environment.

Emotions do not directly measure the adaptiveness of an action because they are a crude mechanism. They are heuristic, ad hoc and stimulus-dependent. Although emotions are not a direct measure of adaptiveness, they evolved to motivate adaptive behavior, and thus motivation is essentially a proxy for what is adaptive in the current situation. In modern civilization, we are gaming our emotions, thus making them a terrible measure of adaptiveness.

Imagine if the engineer viewed increasing the odometer number as the purpose of the car, and the movement of the car on the road as just a way to increase that number. He would view putting the car up on blocks as progress. That is what modern man is doing with respect to emotions and adaptiveness. He is spinning his emotional wheels and going nowhere.

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