A lot of the job of teaching philosophy at a public university is teaching people who don't want to learn. So I developed this preoccupation with: what would it be like if you tried to find the people who only want to learn? Suppose you could just filter for the desire to learn.
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If we had a drug that reduced suicide rates by 60%, increased your likelihood of getting married by 80%, massively increased the likelihood that you decided to run for public office, doubled your income. If we had that pill, would we hoard that pill? Would we let the cost of that drug quadruple? Well, we have that pill. It's called higher education.
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