as a social institution, monasteries take people as an input and provide trustworthy people as an output
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I was wondering how much the Bryan Caplan critique of education applies (signaling/selection theory of monasteries, say) - but it seems sillier in this context!
vows, meditation, asceticism, etc. seem to both produce and certify a trustworthy person in a pretty complex manner
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i'm not familiar with Caplan, i'll have to look this up! am i understanding you that you think these things /do/ produce trustworthy people, but that from your perspective the mechanisms are not obvious / simple?
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yes! summary of his theory - https://quillette.com/2018/06/03/bryan-caplans-case-education-review/ … so given that we trust people from monasteries (I think we do)...
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