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  • Yes. We cannot measure intelligence. We can only measure culturally-relevant knowledge

    Generally, its in the interest of a country to have knowledgeable people. Its an investment that pays back well in $$$

    Qualitatively, I argue that a country that doesn’t allocate funds to make their population knowledgeable is not an intelligent country, regardless od what knowledge they try to teach (be it the three sisters or geography or mathematics or whatever)



  • You’re misremembering.

    The movie showed scenes of the possibility to exploit mass dragnet surveillance “for security” by targeting cell phones.

    It was especially remarkable because it shows this in 2008, 5 years before we learned (from the Snowden revelations) that the NSA was doing this “for security”.

    But the film didn’t champion it, it made it clear that doing it was unethical, and it condemned it. It painted Batman as a villan because he chose to harm innocent civilians in his increasingly maddening obsession to get revenge against the Joker.

    The movie wasn’t subtle about this. When we learned how batman hacked into the phones of everyone at Gotham, Morgan Freedman’s charscter said “this is wrong” and then he resigned.

    Edit: the clip of this dialog is on YT https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Yb7Ps2gA0w