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What is ‘merit’ exactly?

• feoren 4y ago
  Wealth, according to libertarians and Taleb. Taleb seems to pick wealth because it's measurable, and then concludes IQ is worthless because it doesn't correlate with wealth. It's like the drunk looking for his keys near the lamp, not because he dropped them there, but because that's where the light is. Except Taleb has confidently declared that his keys must surely be near the light, making it seem like wealth is in fact the only thing he values. Whatever "merit" is, it's certainly easier to define (differently for each of us, I'm sure) than "intelligence" is.
  • snoot 4y ago
    Seems like you can’t define it, and without a definition your criticism of the article is meaningless.