alt Hacker NewsA person's total luck is constant over a lifetime. The remaining half of the candidates already spent some of their luck in this selection, so they'll be on average less lucky than the discarded half.
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throwawaythekey • today at 8:35 AM
> A person's total luck is constant over a lifetime
Ah yes, the much revered cosmological fairness constraint.
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latexr • today at 8:59 AM
Even assuming that was genuinely how luck works, the conclusion does not follow from the premise because it’s obvious not everyone “starts with” the same amount of luck to spend.
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CuriouslyC • today at 10:35 AM
Donald Trump disproves the fixed luck hypothesis (and the Karma hypothesis!)
No, luck would be some expression of the difference between the average and the individual outcomes - it only exists relative to a population at the point in time when it is measured.