Education Reform

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In an essay on reactionary philosophy, i talk about my frustration with education reform. People ask why we can't reform the educati education system. But right now, students incentives is to go to the most prestigious college they can get into. Employers incentive is to get students from the most prestigeous college so they can defend their decision to their boss if it goes wrong. And colleges incentive is to do whatever it takes to get more prestige, as measured in us. News and world report rankings, whether or not it helps students. Does this lead to a huge waste and poor education? Yes, could the education god notice this and make some education decrees that leads to a vastly more efficient

David and Tamler wind their way through the long-requested “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander, a comprehensive account of the coordination problems (personified by Allan Ginsberg’s demon-entity Moloch) that lead to human misery and values tossed out the window. Does Alexander’s rationalist conception of human nature ignore the work of VBW favorites like Joe Henrich and Robert Frank? Is he a little too friendly to the neo-social Darwinism view of some guy named Nick Land? And oh no, why does he have to go transhumanist at the end?! Plus, we talk about the unique comic vision of Norm Macdonald and why we loved him.