DeVliegendeHollander comments on Memetic Hazards in Videogames - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2010 03:48:04AM 134 points [-]

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so?

Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 May 2015 12:14:44PM 0 points [-]

It is not at all clear that their goal is to match every student with their dream job. If for example society needs a lot of jobs done that are not fun, it is possible that they decided better not to tell to young people too loudly that they are not fun. Tell them they safe careers.