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by Nocturnographer
4348 days ago
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Actually, physical attributes are probably distributed closer to a Gaussian distribution - most people clustered around the average, with a small number of exceptionally lucky and exceptionally unlucky people in the tails of the distribution. I would agree with you that in some vague sense, we might be able to think of a "luck distribution" with similar properties; however, it's not obvious what exactly that would mean in terms of what is actually being measured. Wealth? Happiness? Recognition in their field? All of these in the short run? The long run? |
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We have to come up with an accurate definition of luck, and a way to quantify it. It is a function of work put in and the results obtained. And we have to define how to quantify work.
Another way is to think of world with no luck in it. How would it affect us? Would the world be the same?