[extropy-chat] it's all understandable, except

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Lee Corbin wrote:
> 
> You missed my point, which was my fault:  I should have stressed
> this:  the very brightest  (the ones that I complain are too few) make
> out well NO MATTER WHAT.  You can't wreck them.  It's just
> sad when they can coast their last few years in the school system,
> and the parents (of these very few) often won't stand for it.

I think the school system came within inches of wrecking me permanently, 
and if I'd actually been forced through high school, especially a 
non-Gunn-class high school, that might have been it.

Selection bias, Lee.  You don't see the wrecked ones.  They don't look 
like the "very brightest" any more.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence