The Sort - Rest of What I Know
The Sort is the emergent phenomenon of talent allocation to roles where that talent can achieve maximum output. It was coined by Patrick McKenzie who describes it as follows: We, the societal we, implemented a relatively effective nationwide (and increasingly worldwide) dragnet for talent, then plucked that talent from the not-random-but-constrained walk through lives it would counterfactually have encountered and tracked it fairly narrowly. Jul 31, 2024[1] Replying to @patio11 The Sort makes many mistakes, in both directions. It leaks promising candidates. The Sort doesn’t really feel good or bad about that, because it is an emergent behavior of a system comprised of many disparate actors with differing incentives, values, and similar. Jul 31, 2024[2] Replying to @patio11 But, if the Sort would tolerate anthropomorphization (knowing which word it would award you points for, not that many, just the properly calibrated amount), it would look at many outcomes and declare them inefficient