nerzhin comments on Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Wei_Dai 02 March 2010 09:46PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 03 March 2010 07:05:45AM 3 points [-]

This seems like a good question that's worth thinking about. I wonder if adversarial legal systems (where the job of deciding who is guilty of a crime is divided into the roles of prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge/jury) can be considered an example of this, and if so, why don't scientific institutions do something similar?

Comment author: nerzhin 03 March 2010 05:48:43PM 0 points [-]

Arguably, peer review provides a vaguely similar function - a peer reviewer should turn their skepticism up a notch.