From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jan 04 1997 - 20:30:51 MST
> > Schools are ineffective due to a short-circuit: Simple presence in
> > class is taken as evidence of learning.
> Try to rein in those amazing generalizations, there, Eliezer.
1. short circuit -> ineffective
2. ~short circuit -> ~ineffective
How does your declaration of (2) with respect to your school weaken
(1)? I realize they're not equivalent, but even so...
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