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TLDR of this thread: meritocracy without mediocrity *at societal level* is like Elaine’s idea of muffin tops without stumps in Seinfeld. Everybody can’t skim the cream or high-grade the ore without a base distribution. Tragedy of humanity as a commons.
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One reason I champion mediocrity is that alternative is obviously dystopian: Upper class of exceptional superhumans Middle class of robots Lower class of broken, institutionalized people who failed to be exceptional, and regressed right past human mean to “driven crazy.”
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