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by mgleason_3
2162 days ago
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2 sentence Summary: 1) “Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.“ 2) “Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false.” Wait, what? The first “the world should be run” is one hell of a thing. But how did the author get to the rest? So, not only should the world be run, but it can be run and in such a controlled manner that and all luck is squeezed out of it and most people believe this. Reminds me of my teanage self thinking about the world after a progressive teacher introduced the subject in class - the reasoning is so simplistic and pedantic. But here it is, published in the Princeton press!?! |
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I would say:
- a recursively iterative process of compressing billions of dimensions down into a very small number (typically < 5), using mostly predictive heuristics (a highly sophisticated but often incredibly inaccurate process which is typically invisible to the one doing it, and usually observers as well)
- aggregation