The legibility trap: how “fund the most rigorous thinkers” can quietly select for the wrong people by Justin Steele

Dis­clo­sure: I wrote this with help from an LLM as a draft­ing and edit­ing part­ner. The ar­gu­ment, the ex­pe­rience, the fac­tual claims, and ev­ery ed­i­to­rial de­ci­sion are mine; I di­rected the draft­ing, ver­ified the sources, and re­vised heav­ily. But enough of the fi­nal word­ing origi­nated in that col­lab­o­ra­tion that it likely crosses the 10% thresh­old, so I’m flag­ging it.Cross-posted and adapted from a piece I wrote for a gen­eral au­di­ence. I’ve rewrit­ten it for this com­...