[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Samantha Atkins]

At times it is less malicious to attribute actual malice than to 
believe that an entire major enterprise of critical importance such as 
educating the next generation is in the hands of complete and utter 
incompetents.     I find it often useful to assume that others, 
particularly large groups of others, are, or contain those who are, at 
least as intelligent as I am.   Since I could not design educational 
philosophy and practice to produce such horrendously poor results by 
accident I do not believe that  it was accidental.

- samantha

On Jan 21, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:

> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>> That the public schools do this is
>> not an accident. The government child warehouse and indoctrination
>> centers want to chemically castrate the frontal lobes of those with 
>> the
>> greatest ability to imagine and inquire, question and contest 
>> authority.
>
> Don't be ridiculous.  Attribute ye not to malice what can be 
> adequately explained by stupidity, greed, and bad organizational 
> incentives.
>
> -- 
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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