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40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 06:43AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 25 March 2013 07:50:40PM *  3 points [-]

My obligatory Edwin Jaynes quote on philosophers, quoting a colleague

"Philosophers are free to do whatever they please, because they don't have to do anything right."

Probability Theory http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA144