[extropy-chat] Draft Paper on Boredom and Superlongevity

[Joseph Bloch]

I must disagree.

"Designed"...? No.

Does so inadvertently, with the best of intentions...? Yes.

Joseph

Samantha Atkins wrote:

>On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:59 PM, MB wrote:
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>>This fits my experience in school, in certain classes. The studying  
>>was
>>almost impossible for me to do. After about 10 minutes my "brain  
>>stopped"
>>- I was unable to concentrate and there was no meaning to what I was
>>doing. Over and over the material I would go, all to no avail. My  
>>input
>>circuits seemed to have shut down. Surely not through overload though.
>>
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>Public K-12 education in the US at least was actually designed to  
>shut down large numbers of active bright minds.  I wish that I was  
>kidding.
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>- samantha
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