owencb comments on Human Capital Contracts - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Dias 10 March 2015 01:21AM

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Comment author: Dias 10 March 2015 11:48:16PM 1 point [-]

I basically agree with everything you said.

With regards the race and socio-economic background issue, I agree, only noting that this is similarly an issue for job applications and other financial products. Reality is not race-blind; at some point you have to deal with it, and this is not a special case.

Perhaps it would be easier to do in England (or some other non-US country) for this reason.

Comment author: owencb 11 March 2015 10:45:39PM 0 points [-]

I somewhat agree with that point, but this would bring it out into the open as an explicit effect, which might be more controversial.

Of course anti-discrimination legislation might mean that the contracts on offer were only allowed to depend on certain parameters.