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Interview with Robin Hanson

The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy

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The Case Against Education

We're not actually learning very useful things for the job at school and we never did. We use school to show off our conscientiousness and our conformity and our intelligence. And we even use school as a way to habituate people in the modern workplace practices. It seems relatively clear that the simple direct skills on jobs are not the big thing.

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