[chromatin]

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

BRB, changing the simulated latency in my bot.

[timshell]

Agreed. Section 3 takes the idea to the extreme -- can a bot replicate human cognition? Traditional OCR CAPTCHAs were a good 'measure' that couldn't be fully gamed. That is, while the rise of computer vision made them eventually ineffective, the gains in computer vision did not come from bot farms