Adaptation to cities (@gcochran99's 10K year explosion) is just ("just") selecting on standing variation (http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#standing-variation …), not enough time for new complex functional adaptations (argument in grandparent link). Implications for present-day sociology are not obvious!
Is there equality when people have different genetic endowments? When they have different backgrounds? "Well, this arbitrary amount of advantage from your family is ok, but this amount isn't" is the exact opposite of a Schelling point - no natural point to pick. 2/2
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"Equality under the Procedure" is? "Take noisy tests at face value; don't adjust for demographic regression to the mean" is Schelling if it's easier to agree on the Procedure than the regression coefficient. Maybe this is the part where you say "Manipulating procedural outcomes"?
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Indeed; "equality under the procedure" is sliced from both sides. "The procedure is unfair, it's manipulated to give the results wanted" and the other side of a people whose core identity is that they are the people who are good at doing exactly that with every procedure.
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More generally (as a rationalist, I have NO interest in specific cases, and ESPECIALLY not politically-sensitive ones; I can ONLY articulate the GENERAL laws) populations are more predictable than individuals because of the law of large numbers. 1/2