komponisto comments on Epistemic Luck - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 08 February 2010 05:26:55AM *  6 points [-]

I read this as an admission that modern academic philosophy has nothing whatever to do with the search for truth and everything to do with status-seeking, signalling, and affiliation games.

Hansonian cynics may be inclined to argue that one could just as well substitute almost any other discipline for "philosophy" in that sentence.