alt Hacker NewsI must say, amidst all this pretending, justifying, hand-waiving, and appealing, I was surprised to find the eugenics:
> and that those who can't are a small minority that should be culled anyways
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't invalidate everything else you wrote. It was mostly all completely invalid anyway.
You need to start from fundamentals. Logical argument is a DAG. Circular reasoning is trivially invalid. If there is a skill I would see becoming ubiquitous, it is that.
It's not eugenics, it's just nature and non-interventionism.
There are many barriers to entry in modern society. If you can't read, if you can't drive, if you can't do algebra or arithmetic, you're screwed in this world. What I'm proposing would just be adding a single new expectation to the list: how to use a computer without installing malware. they could probably teach it in middle schools if they don't already.
We don't dumb down all cars because some people can't drive. What you're suggesting is that we dumb down every general purpose computer because some people can't cope with them. It's the equivalent allowing every general-purpose car in the world into a fixed-purpose train with a limited network and surveillance to boot.
We disagree because I think that society should be built around the capability of the common man rather than the needs of the lowest common denominator.