I think he suggests to put armor where no holes are, while the rest of the industry points armor where the standardized gun sends a standardized bullet.
Extraordinary positions require people with rare trait combos to fill them. If a job requires that you score 3-4 sigma in just three trait dimensions, it might mean that only a handful of people in the world can do it. Einstein was replaceable, but only with other Einsteins.
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True, but don't you think there would always be another one to replace with? (There is the handwringing argument that the person who has the cure for cancer in their head died in a Delhi slum.) Progress is only linear in culturally contextual hindsight.
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If traits don't matter, you can pick your life partners, friends, CEOs, top scientists, athletes, artists using a lottery. Do you believe that? If traits do matter, do you expect them to be randomly distributed over the total population?
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