I've occasionally faked my way into rigged lists of "smartest" under test conditions, and occasionally managed to fake "driven" for several weeks in a row, but if anyone seriously tried to bet on me using such tests in hopes of returns, damn... I'd be a total shitcoin. No moon.
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If I had money to throw at such ideas, I'd probably go for random distribution. At most some testing of basic mental competence to handle money, and not being a known serial killer or something. And no return in an income share sense, just gently encourage a pay-it-forward norm
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Anyone who wants to create artificial selection pressures regimes to reproduce their notions of optimal human beings is typically trying to clone a self-congratulatory idea of themselves at scale
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It's not that it can't work in an investment sense. You'll almost certainly get a certain "yield" of stars, a bunch of mediocrities, and some dogs you quietly ignore. It's just a shitty way to think about human development in general.
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The kind of idea I really like is for systems that can take average mediocrities as input and produce interesting results and evolutions.
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College used to be that. Then it got to be an expensive form of generational wealth transfer and class boundary policing.
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My objection btw isn't about false positive or false negative errors, it's about the very idea of exceptionally privileging exceptionality at the expense of the ability of the ordinary to pursue completely ordinary lives
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Mediocrity will do as it does without help. Hoping for the exceptional is raging against the dying of the light. The former is important to come to terms with, but holding it up as an ideal is perverse.
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Nope it will not. Without help, "exceptional" nearly always ends up seriously oppressing "ordinary"
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What do you do with someone who is exceptional at creating the systems you'd like to see?
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historically they haven't been created by exceptional people but by ordinary people under weird conditions
you're begging the question of the supposed value of exceptional people and assuming ordinary people are worthless drags on the special
If you take it as axiomatic that "great" people exist and that all value comes from them, you will land on exactly the sort of apparently self-evident conclusions and contempt for the ordinary you seem to
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