Summary: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/14/addendum-to-targeting-meritocracy/ I’ve always been dissatisfied with Targeting Meritocracy and the comments it got. My position seemed so obvious to me – and the opposite position so obvious to other people – that we both had to be missing something. Reading it over, I think I was missing the idea of conflict vs mistake theory. I wrote the post from a mistake theory perspective. The government exists to figure out how to solve problems.
