Devin_Finbarr comments on Competent Elites - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2008 12:07AM

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Comment author: Devin_Finbarr 27 September 2008 12:57:57AM 5 points [-]

BTW, how does this insight change your view about Aristocracy/Monarchy versus Democracy as a form of government?

Comment author: gwern 30 September 2011 07:16:26PM 13 points [-]

It wouldn't change mine much. The point is that all these people were pretty much selected, and not born to it.

Now, it does make me wonder about the Chinese mandarins...