Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1087186955467554816 …
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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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