Matthew Henty

Nancy Lebovitz in reply to Robin Hanson:

A lot of the most effective propaganda from school is about the process of education, not the content.

In particular, conventional schooling teaches that you can’t tell for yourself whether you’ve learned something, your interest or lack of interest in learning something is irrelevant, and what you learn is irrelevant to anything you’re doing.

It’s teaching as though consciousness doesn’t matter.

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The Pensions Trust have issued an update letter explaining the steps they have taken to deal with the situation since an unencrypted laptop with customer information was stolen from the offices of NorgateArinso.

They seem to have dealt with it pretty well, and it seems unlikely that The Pensions Trust will make the same mistakes again. But does something like this have to happen to each and every organisation before these simple steps are taken? Can’t they learn from the mistakes of others?

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