Sure seems to me like “college admissions are structured to encourage either ideological conformity or strategic deception” is pretty central to what LW’s mission is about.
A system set up to give the best education and the best social connections (i.e. university as networking) to those who fit those selection criteria is Not Good for sanity in general.
The main criteria for frontpage-ness is Timelessness (i.e. it’ll still make sense to read 5-10 years from now. The opening of the post was somewhat news driven. Overall it mostly seemed to doing an analysis that’ll probably be relevant for a while, hence frontpaging, but, it was at least a counterconsideration)
(It’s also a bit culture-war-y in a way that’s not a strong dealbreaker but is a couple points on the scale)
Edge case? Why?
Sure seems to me like “college admissions are structured to encourage either ideological conformity or strategic deception” is pretty central to what LW’s mission is about.
A system set up to give the best education and the best social connections (i.e. university as networking) to those who fit those selection criteria is Not Good for sanity in general.
The main criteria for frontpage-ness is Timelessness (i.e. it’ll still make sense to read 5-10 years from now. The opening of the post was somewhat news driven. Overall it mostly seemed to doing an analysis that’ll probably be relevant for a while, hence frontpaging, but, it was at least a counterconsideration)
(It’s also a bit culture-war-y in a way that’s not a strong dealbreaker but is a couple points on the scale)
Thanks, appreciate the transparency.