McNamara’s Folly is a great book on one of his more idiotic policies, and a great meditation on the dehumanizing cruelty that results from basing policy on false but ideologically pleasing assumptions.
This reminds me of McNamara's Folly - during the Vietnam war, then Secretary-of-Defence Robert McNamara lowered mental standards for service in an effort to increase the size of the conscript pool. [0] (Gwern's review is a nice summary…
《McNamara’s Folly》是一本极好的书，记录了他最愚蠢的政策之一；这也是一次深刻的省思，揭示了将政策建立在错误却迎合意识形态的假设之上所导致的灭绝人性的残酷。
McNamara’s Folly is a great book on one of his more idiotic policies, and a great meditation on the dehumanizing cruelty that results from basing policy on false but ideologically pleasing assumptions.
这让我想起了《McNamara's Folly》——越战期间，时任国防部长的罗伯特·麦克纳马拉为了扩大征兵池，降低了服役的智力门槛。[0]（Gwern 的书评总结得很精辟……
This reminds me of McNamara's Folly - during the Vietnam war, then Secretary-of-Defence Robert McNamara lowered mental standards for service in an effort to increase the size of the conscript pool. [0] (Gwern's review is a nice summary…
这篇文章竟然连个引用来源都没有，真让人失望。我猜大部分信息都来自提到的那本书，《McNamara's Folly》。
I am disappointed by the lack of citations in this article. I am assuming much of this information is from the mentioned book, McNamara's Folly.