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The world has limited resources, be realistic. Prioritization makes sense.
by xwdv 4y ago
The world has limited resources, be realistic. Prioritization makes sense.
- birdyrooster 4y agoThe resources are limited because of undemocratic uses, largely thanks to wealth inequality (aka prioritization).
- RC_ITR 4y agoSure. And heuristically, society doesn’t prioritize geniuses. So I guess we are just all realistically sad, huh?
- quickthrower2 4y agoAnd, the point of writing is to spread ideas and change people's minds. Lobbying for the future state of what people think, effectively. There is also a difference between something being absurd and something we are just not used to yet.
- sinenomine 4y agoWhy doesn't society prioritize geniuses though? And does society really have a say in this decision process? Because it is pretty obvious that the ones deciding society-wide investment priorities are, for a lack of better word, the elites. As fellow HNer noticed in today's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120063 elites are very much used to having precise control over their environment, and known&unknown unknowns irritate them. From this POV natural geniuses are just such an instance of a hard to control variable, and so it's obvious that prioritization of geniuses would pose a problem to the elites. Who knows when a popular genius will decide to amass the political power and change the power balance? It seems that the current packaging of the brightest into the ivory tower of the academia is a compromise, where one side gets a certain amount of income and freedom, in return for giving away broader ambition. And at least to me, this is disappointing.
- xwdv 4y agoWe live in an anti-intellectual society. I doubt geniuses will ever be given the proper resources they deserve to make powerful contributions in this world. Seems like beautiful people are the only real priority in this world. People will bend over backwards to just give you things if you are attractive, especially if you are female as well
- hourago 4y agoTo prioritize people with mental health issues, disabilities, people excluded from society, etc. makes everybody better off. That seems the best investment. I'm sure that there are a lot of smart engineers here and they are doing fine. It's like giving free stylist to the most beautiful people, it seems a waste. It also seems a way of gatekeeping universal income.
- f17 4y ago[dead]
- eyelidlessness 4y agoPrioritization does make sense. The overhead of selecting who benefits deprioritizes the beneficiaries and those who are selected out.