Comment on Open Thread: November 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:05:59 GMT

One obvious reply would be to hire rationalists only to adjudicate that which has been phrased as a question of simple fact.

To the extent that you do think that people who've learned to be good epistemic critics have an advantage in listening to values arguments as well, then go ahead and hire rationalists to adjudicate that as well. (Who does the hiring, though?) Is the idea that rationalists have an advantage here, enough that people would still hire them, but the advantage is much weaker and hence they can be swayed by highly paid arguers?

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