Do you remember before the internet, when people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?
Yeah, it wasn't that.
The information-access hypothesis was seductive because it had a clean solution. Build libraries, open the internet, make knowledge free. All good things. But the actual bottleneck was never data — it was the capacity to reason under conditions of abundance. That's a different problem, and it doesn't have a clean solution.
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