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Can we all please get over this ridiculous idea that we are perfectly rational agents in some free-market meritocratic utopia? People are irrational, biased, ac
by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Can we all please get over this ridiculous idea that we are perfectly rational agents in some free-market meritocratic utopia? People are irrational, biased, accident-prone, living things. That alone precludes unbiased judgements of another person's "merit".
I mean, come on. We're programmers. We have jobs because of how much people screw up.
- javert 14y agoI don't disagree with anything you're saying.