nazgulnarsil comments on Teaching the Unteachable - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 March 2009 11:14PM

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 04 March 2009 12:43:34AM 4 points [-]

if you have a choice between marketing something that educates people and something that allows them to be more lazy which would you choose? millions of others have made the obvious choice and the result is what you see.

I posit that a private rationalist school would produce people that outperform others on average by a ridiculous margin. But it would take you 20 years to prove it.