PhilGoetz comments on Man-with-a-hammer syndrome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 December 2009 02:40:39AM *  7 points [-]

Utilitarianism is a very general framework. Why wouldn't these things also be "man-with-a-hammer"?

  • physics
  • materialism
  • determinism
  • mathematics
  • Bayesian decision theory