"meritocracy is great in theory but in practice it results in bias" no. Wrong

people have intrinsic value unrelated to their Output Metrics

@nova meritocracy is literally just a fancy word for eugenics.
People who can Do More Work get more resources and spread, and people who cannot Do Work at all get nothing and die. That's eugenics.
The fact that anyone thinks it could be a good thing no matter how you twist it is disgusting.

@V @nova

Well, I would consider pure replicators propagating to not be *eu*genics, on the account that they are not very *good*¹.

¹: https://qri.org/blog/universal-plot

The Universal Plot: Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators

There are at least some encouraging facts that suggest it is not too late to prevent a pure replicator takeover.