Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Mandatory Secret Identities - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 06:10PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 09:10:04PM 2 points [-]

Personally I suspect that the bathwater only really gets dirty when you are teaching something that is essentially useless in modern society, like martial arts or literary criticism. Most people who study, say, engineering don't do so in the hopes of becoming teachers of engineering.

Fair point. But this depends on things starting out healthy so that they stay healthy.