one of the main things that you're not supposed to Notice is how many systems are primarily for sorting and filtering people
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the example that does get talked about is education — the quality of an educational institution largely depends on how well it skims the cream, not how well the instructors teach
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dating and hiring are both instructive since both are lemon markets — the "talent pool" is dominated by low-quality applicants since the best prospects get snapped up quickly, leave existing arrangements seldom, and when they do move, coordinate it via backchannel / referrals
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so a LOT of the dynamics of both dating and hiring is dictated by the need to search for diamonds in the rough. heavy filtering and sorting necessary to find what you're looking for
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it's worth noting that skimming the cream is in-and-of-itself a useful service (first you had an undifferentiated mass of people, now you have a *legible* limited pool) and takes significant skill, especially given the need for plausible deniabilityhttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1371605283139579906 …
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If society were committed sanely to the premise of filtering it wouldn't allow K-12, the most determinative years in a sense, to be run by a cabal of damaged goods political extremist trash, low IQ failures, fascists, communists, and identity extremists but here we are.
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