Everyone forgets that after the hare loses to the tortoise that it uses its faster mind to devise a way so that a short term advantage becomes a long term advantage for *forever*.
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The word "meritocracy" isn't nuanced enough to cover this dynamic b/c it *is* true that the hare's mind works faster and can hop over obstacles that would leave the tortoise stumped.
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A purely meritocratic society would evolve into one where the hares have free reign to fill the landscape with tortoise traps. The hares themselves would then start competing against each other devising more and more complex hare traps.
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This is the "End of Knowledge" problem which is also the "Human Happiness" problem.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336883194700820481 …
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Everyone becomes a tortoise as they age. One way to see this "survival" is to see how old people live & are treated in society/culture. (and also indirectly, minorities who don't have access to orthodox privilege)
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