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no one, especially not some random contemporary, owns the idea of using a lottery once a threshold is met. that concept has been thrown around for millenia to p
by clairity 4y ago
no one, especially not some random contemporary, owns the idea of using a lottery once a threshold is met. that concept has been thrown around for millenia to pick lots of all sorts. i've even suggested it as a reasonable approach to hiring right here on hn, and didn't even need to crib the idea off anyone else to do so. it's a rational solution for a decision system under high, but not unbounded, uncertainty.
- buzzy_hacker 4y agoNot saying Michael Sandel owns the idea, I first heard it in his book Tyranny of Merit.
- clairity 4y agoso reference the book, which is more useful, rather than some rando name.