{"id":2864,"date":"2025-11-23T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:22:32","slug":"a-recipe-for-idiocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2025\/11\/23\/a-recipe-for-idiocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Recipe For Idiocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWho is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn\u2019t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?\u201d Brian Conrad, a Stanford math professor, told me. \u201cThe premise that foundational ideas don\u2019t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2025\/11\/math-decline-ucsd\/684973\/\">A Recipe For Idiocracy<\/a> in The Atlantic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn\u2019t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?\u201d Brian Conrad, a Stanford math professor, told me. \u201cThe premise that foundational ideas don\u2019t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.\u201d from A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}