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> semi-educated This is an interesting take, but what a weird modifier to add in here. IMO education level is more or less irrelevant here, but if one had to f

• smt88 5y ago
  In college, many of us learn the ethics around experimentation, including the ugly history of experiments performed in secret without ethics boards and without concern for the subjects. I included that qualifier only to suggest that Zuckerberg likely didn't have the training in ethical experimentation that many of us got in college. I tend to agree that a Harvard education makes someone more suspect, but only (in my opinion) if the degree is an MBA. Their undergrads, on average, have always seemed to me to be as sincere and compassionate as any other school's.
  • wutbrodo 5y ago
    >In college, many of us learn the ethics around experimentation, including the ugly history of experiments performed in secret without ethics boards and without concern for the subjects. You have more faith than I do that this lesson is actually absorbed. And it's leaving aside the fact that the kind of elitist detachment from the masses that underpins your framing is going to be correlated with getting education, not lacking it. Though again, I don't think any of these effects would be strong enough to be worth mentioning.