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Re:Philosophy of science books every computer scientist shou... by senekerim on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:40AM (#10718068)
> They (and his earlier co-author Robin Hanson) also like to reduce things to signaling, basically saying that education is just to show off and raise one's status by acquiring pieces of paper, but if you really want to get things done, it's more efficient to self-study and concentrate on the really important things, skipping all this mess that is education.

You say it like it's not true. Traditional education is a mess. A lot of it is smoke and mirrors and signaling. Which is why online education is huge and growing.

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Re:Philosophy of science books every computer scientist shou... by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:43PM (#10718508)
> Traditional education is a mess.

True.

> but if you really want to get things done, it's more efficient to self-study and concentrate on the really important things, skipping all this mess that is education.

Also true, at least some of the time.

However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you.

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Re:Philosophy of science books every computer scientist shou... by senekerim on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:57PM (#10718623)
> However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you.

Where did I say that it follows?

Also, AFAIK Robin Hanson is a full econ professor.

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Re:Philosophy of science books every computer scientist shou... by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:26PM (#10719251)
You didn't. I was noting the gap between what you said and what johann28 said.
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