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The ultra darwinian workplace is probably not a fun place to be. Also it sounds implicit in survival that there is some obviously fairer natural law that governs who survives. It's another judgement by someone with similar repeatability issues, albeit a judgement with more observation time (and more collateral damage to everyone else who is in fear of losing their job).

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Well less repeatability issues actually ... since you can think about the counterfactual “what would we lose if they weren’t here” and the actual “what did we gain”. This information is available and you don’t need process to extract it.

As far as “darwinian” goes some of us relish a meritocracy and loathe being surrounded by duds. I understand “Valve” to do something just like this but to a greater extent and they are not having problems hiring.

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