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kinda wild - theoretically i'm aligned, but can see this also quickly becoming a shitshow 😂 
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/1910665112924439018

Hot take: Educational institutions should NOT pursue meritocracy and excellence.  They should pursue furthering humanity’s collective knowledge.

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so then who gets to/should go to college?

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so should anyone who "wants to learn new things" be admitted to a college without any kind of qualifications or credentialism? and then what should that cost and who foots the bill?

personally do think that the institutionalization of higher education as a necessity for "white collar" jobs should be dismantled, for sure. but also do think that people should have the agency to understand, especially in this day and age, that you can simply just do things

People who want to learn new things.

The real answer is more nuanced - there was a distinction in the past that universities were for cutting edge research and colleges are for practical knowledge (ie go to college to get a job), but these distinctions have ceased to exist.  Getting a job has outcompeted furthering knowledge.  So every higher education institution’s main value is to help students get jobs.

This has some terrible downstream effects, including making higher education essentially mandatory if you want to make money and pushing our youth into only specific kinds of jobs.