“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.” PeopleThinkingShouldStatesLawChoicesRidiculousCousin Author:Amber Heard
“If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they can buy a new house near the school of their choice. And it's driving up property prices in certain key areas. When you stop and think about it, that's kind of ridiculous.” IfsThinkingWantKindWholeKidsSchoolCertainChoicesHouseParentKeysAreasPropertyRidiculousDrivingBunchForksTuitionPrivate School Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi