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banning Harvard from enrolling international students is a pretty clear signal to elite intellectual capital that the US is no longer the obvious place to study
by hunglee2 1y ago
banning Harvard from enrolling international students is a pretty clear signal to elite intellectual capital that the US is no longer the obvious place to study. Trump 2.0 is fascinating social experiment - can reducing aggregate brainpower lead to better outcomes for the country? Not a rhetorical question, being smart is not the only way to win
- homarp 1y agosmart or educated?
- falcor84 1y agoArguably, smart people seek better education, such that making American universities less competitive will lead to smart people going elsewhere.
- hunglee2 1y agofair observation
- draugadrotten 1y agoStudying at Harvard isn’t about the books or the lectures. It’s about rubbing elbows with future CEOs at late-night pizza runs.
- aniviacat 1y agoPutting aside the negatives, I see zero upsides of reducing brain power. The people being more equal perhaps? Maybe the path to the fabled middle class is to bring down the upper class.
- lemming 1y agoI see zero upsides of reducing brain power You have fewer annoying people pointing out logical problems with your policies.
- levzettelin 1y agoThese days, a lot of brainpower is spent on scamming people (case in point: Vivek Ramaswamy). One can really make quite a good living off of scamming people these days. If you could reduce the brainpower of that demographic, I think this would be good for everyone else.
- patrickdavey 1y agoI'm genuinely curious: how do you think reducing aggregate brainpower could lead to better outcomes?
- levzettelin 1y agoIf you primarily reduce the brainpower of scammers, like Vivek Ramaswamy, I think that would help, even if it reduces overall brainpower.
- hunglee2 1y agobeing smarter doesn't always lead to better decision making - many people overly intellectualise a problem and fail to move to action. Trump is definitely action oriented, a lot of it really dumb, but it does alter the external conditions which may produce better outcomes.
- hshdhdhj4444 1y agoTrue. Because clearly the problem for China the last few decades has been a failure to move to action. The Chinese need to start installing a whole dumber bunch of people to lead their country so their leaders are more action oriented.
- hunglee2 1y agoChina doesn't have a leadership problem atm, though certainly has had its fair share of anti-intellectual leaders. Trump's actions are very familiar to Chinese people, especially ones who have been educated on the excesses of Maoism. That said, point of post is - will Trump anti-intellectualism 'work', where work = benefiting America. Ostensibly, the answer looks like 'of course not' but in my view, it is too early to say
- lmpdev 1y agoSigh Brainpower is not a commodity and this discussion is absurd
- tremon 1y ago
- lwo32k 1y agoIt's not the only way in an "Attention Economy" cause you don't need to be Einstein to collect the most likes and followers in the land. Where the Attention Economy takes the real US Economy we shall see soon as AI explodes Supply of content with Demand hardly growing.