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Partiality (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Relationship Between Efficiency and Discrimination

The next step in my analysis might be to look at when efficiency correlates with a divide like this. I'm pretty sure that given the concept of efficiency i have in mind everybody cares about it you might not realize you do but but everyone cares a lot. So let's take our prototypical example of say um discrimination say racial discrimination in the u.s. south stay mid-20th century. There was a coordination saying you must keep blacks in their place and can't let them fill various roles even if to you that would seem to be the sensible thing to do. And then similar thing in gender discrimination one of the biggest arguments against gender discrimination was that we were hurting ourselves arbitrarily by not

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