army1987 comments on Singularity the hard way - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: CCC 12 December 2012 07:07PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2012 01:27:35PM 0 points [-]

World literacy will allow anyone and everyone to read up on that which interests them.

There are plenty of people who know perfectly well how to read but can't be arsed to, so long as they can eat everyday and watch TV on their couch.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 December 2012 01:41:04PM -1 points [-]

No doubt, but what's important isn't so much the people who don't do much (and I don't think there's any superiority from reading ordinary stuff vs. watching ordinary stuff), as the people who could be doing something interesting or important but are blocked because of lack of literacy.