Yeah I’m familiar with _The Case Against Education_. But signalling is commonly built on symbols rather than substance. If people weren’t so ready to accept abstractions like “lecture”, then society would get into less-wasteful signalling equilibria.
I was not familiar with a book by that name but I guess the geist is in similar vein.
I think the issue is more orthagonal. I think there might be a deep and vast difference in opinion what the relevant mechanics are which falls out of the scope fof the post. Even what the hypothetical world were people did not have access to words like “lecture” would be like is pretty ambigious. But I think losing the cover of doing evil in the name of good would be (partially) counterbalanced by evilseekers being forced to pay tribute to an image of goodness which does some amount of actual good.
I think losing the cover of doing evil in the name of good would be (partially) counterbalanced by evilseekers being forced to pay tribute to an image of goodness which does some amount of actual good.
My disagreement with lectures isn’t about what lectures are—just that they don’t get as good results as alternatives.
Yeah I’m familiar with _The Case Against Education_. But signalling is commonly built on symbols rather than substance. If people weren’t so ready to accept abstractions like “lecture”, then society would get into less-wasteful signalling equilibria.
I was not familiar with a book by that name but I guess the geist is in similar vein.
I think the issue is more orthagonal. I think there might be a deep and vast difference in opinion what the relevant mechanics are which falls out of the scope fof the post. Even what the hypothetical world were people did not have access to words like “lecture” would be like is pretty ambigious. But I think losing the cover of doing evil in the name of good would be (partially) counterbalanced by evilseekers being forced to pay tribute to an image of goodness which does some amount of actual good.
My disagreement with lectures isn’t about what lectures are—just that they don’t get as good results as alternatives.