I think lotteries are a useful tool to increase meritocracy, did this blogger ever expand elsewhere on why they think they are part of a 'war' on it?
I couldn't really discern any actual argument in this. From the blog title onwards it felt like it was aimed at an audience that already agreed and so didn't need to actually present any arguments. But I'd be interested if they actually have any as lotteries have a lot of useful applications but some people are wary of them.
Think of the time and energy we'd save if we just chose some smart people for a task rather than waste their time writing essays about their extracurriculars.
Then we could treat the people who don't make it as smart but unlucky and actually have a plan for them too, rather than discard them as stupid and further increase the competition for the few slots at the top.
I couldn't really discern any actual argument in this. From the blog title onwards it felt like it was aimed at an audience that already agreed and so didn't need to actually present any arguments. But I'd be interested if they actually have any as lotteries have a lot of useful applications but some people are wary of them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Think of the time and energy we'd save if we just chose some smart people for a task rather than waste their time writing essays about their extracurriculars.
Then we could treat the people who don't make it as smart but unlucky and actually have a plan for them too, rather than discard them as stupid and further increase the competition for the few slots at the top.