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> have no business being there as I would evaluate it. That's the key insight here. "As I would evaluate it". We simply don't know enough about most topics to
by pdpi 6y ago
> have no business being there as I would evaluate it.
That's the key insight here. "As I would evaluate it". We simply don't know enough about most topics to be able to evaluate merit. Likewise, we don't know enough to choose the people who can, beyond simple heuristics like "they've been working on this for decades, they should be good".
For example, we can probably agree that Trump is a bad president, but who was better — Obama or Bush? While I have an opinion on that, I also know that opinion is dominated by my political leanings, and I don't know nearly enough to cogently answer that question.
- Grimm1 6y agoOh I'm certainly aware in fact that is probably the seminal issue of the idea of merit -- it's not an objective quality. Applied to a small system of homogeneous groups it's probably fine, as applied to society it falls apart.