NancyLebovitz comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

177 Post author: lukeprog 05 January 2011 07:22AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 January 2011 04:00:54PM 0 points [-]

Philosophy seems to offer a very low chance of doing something extremely valuable.

I suspect it's the valuable human activity with the most extreme odds against success.