Viliam_Bur comments on A game of angels and devils

Viliam_Bur 27 Sep 2013 19:42 UTC
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And how will you crush the next education reformer who comes along?

I would centralize all education, and let the bureaucrats decide everything. Then I would set incentives to the bureaucrats so that they have nothing to fear by keeping the status quo.

(But I guess a truly evil-maximizing devil would instead invent a religion that tells people to torture all educational reformers to death. The status quo could be made sacred, literally.)
- Ishaan 27 Sep 2013 20:23 UTC
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  Bureaucrats aren’t evil, though. They’d be pro-social enough to let obviously good and obviously popular ideas go through.
  
  invent a religion that tells people to torture all educational reformers to death.
  
  That would be effective, but it’s also stretching the scope and specificity of the devil’s powers beyond what any human has possessed, ever.
  - buybuydandavis 29 Sep 2013 2:17 UTC
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    Bureaucrats aren’t evil, though. They’d be pro-social enough to let obviously good and obviously popular ideas go through.
    
    To laugh or cry—that is the question.
    
    How about I just suggest you read 1984?