[timwilder]

An absurd thought experiment that could make for maybe the driest Neal Stephenson book yet @coatthrowaway.

Take the SCOTUS clerks from the last 10y. Pick a set of the same size of bureaucrats in one role from any time and place in history. Set them loose on a well translated set of each others' laws with a series of cases covering edges in the law to provide opinions on.

Who creates better rulings?

Do you think there is a set that does a better job at switcheroo2020? If not - does that mean that recent clerks meet the best at what they do criteria?

If you provide me the bureaucrats I'll: 1. Be super amused. 2. Happily go read about them and roll back my bad take.

The easiest target I'd go for is - current federal judges. Maybe that sinks me by itself here - in spirit I don't think so because the funnel overlaps heavily - and the theory is that the current funnel creates a historically rare result.