except it doesnt go far enoughhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1199539270131671041?s=19 …
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joke: admissions via application woke: admissions via divination
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My general impression of academia is that they'd all be better off if they dropped the gentleman scholar pretense and just treated them like prentices & ruthlessly worked grad students to death, firing, or quitting for five or six years while paying them a steady wage to live on
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It will never happen because Class Norms of your average student, but half-assing the whip-cracking and quarter-assing the cash and economically useful skills while using them as money batteries really sucks while also somehow overproducing terminal degrees
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Then you have to maintain quality on the other end by letting people fail out. That doesn't happen so much.
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A better idea: admissions via haruspicy. Applicants disembowel an appropriate creature and send the entrails to the college haruspex who examines them and decides whether the omens justify extending an admission offer.
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