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

[MB]

Eliezer wrote:

>
> 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.
>


I fear this is true. Instead they often look like the worst. Drugs, drinking, other
maladaptive behaviours - anything to kill the frustration and boredom and
pointlessness of their daily lives.

Regards,
MB