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Partiality (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Importance of Efficiency in Business

In some sense you might say we're being partial toward quality in whatever a metric or the quality for a prize would be. In other contexts where we have sort of in business for example so more to say in terms of profit a more standard reference point for efficiency i.e. what would a lower cost give more value to customers inducing more revenue as the difference for profit. And relative to that you might have employees in a firm like say Google making business decisions where they are not just maximizing Google profit or worker convenience but they are being partial toward some programming language or some political agenda or some geographic location and this common perception that people empowered with such decisions often make them with some degree of partiality

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