Look, at bottom, you know the fault of this lies in the fact that we’ve abolished grades at universities, in many parts of the country, nobody fails anymore cause if we went back to the situation that occurred when I started teaching at Harvard, almost sixty years ago, this couldn’t work, because these students would fail out.
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And there is the problem. The feedback loop has been deliberately broken. Now you just show up and you get a degree.
Well, in a way the scandal is a good thing as it exposes the crime and fraud that is “higher education”.
Yes, but going open-loop is so liberating.
Of course going open-loop inevitably leads to going non-linear, which is also interesting and can be the source of lots of news stories.