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zchrykngyesterday at 6:45 PM1 replyview on HN

... I'm not sure what part of "If you extend that logic to the world" you didn't understand.


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neutronicusyesterday at 7:15 PM

The logic is inherently local.

The typical student does not emigrate or even travel that much, so you don't prepare them to encounter a human randomly selected from the population of the Earth, you prepare them to encounter a human randomly selected from the regions where they are likely to spend their lives.