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that sounds great on paper, but it could never work in reality. why not just organize society to educate everyone, and thus enable everyone? it seems like that

• nootropicat 4y ago
  >why not just organize society to educate everyone Because it was tried and it's a massive failure. The entire western education system is geared to help slowest learners at the expense of everyone else. It's actively harmful for those that are exceptional. Only those from rich families can escape it. And that's only inside developed countries. The reality in rest of the world is much worse. >nobody has a magical oracle Yes, no perfect oracle exists, but it's enough to have something that's substantially better than random, like intelligence tests. A direct economic incentive would lead to development of more reliable predictors.