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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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How Do We Change Our Institutions?

In the media and politics, we are basically following the same conversation norm and process. We're not very interested in how useful the things you say are. And people in all these contacts do follow the fashion of the topic and talk about whateveris impressive. So this gives you a sense for the function of these institutions. Now, ah, we might ask, well, could we change our institutions? But this suggests that the problem is harder than you thought. Neither teachers nor students seem to care whether they are learning more material faster. In order to reform something like education, you'll have to find a new alternative that does two things at once. It has to let them continue to pretend to

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