You Can't Take a Random Sample from the Future

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Published on September 29, 2026 2:46 PM GMTHow something that knows it is being measured will distort the process or the data when given an unrealistic target, and how distortion relates to what happened with ExploitGym.Post one in the series ˜When Measuring Makes Things Worse˜. It looked at distortion. Then it covered tampering: reacting to ordinary variation as if it means something. Now I go into a rule to separate ordinary from a signal and what follows from that.Note: These words are mine. ...

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