pnrjulius comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 06 July 2012 10:54:30PM 0 points [-]

Negative selection may be good, actually, for the vast majority of people who are ultimately going to be mediocre.

It seems like it may hurt the occasional genius... but then again, there are a lot more people who think they are geniuses than really are geniuses.