Perplexed comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 01 February 2011 07:40:58PM 3 points [-]

Has there ever been a time when philosophical questions were solved by a committee?

It could be argued that they are never usefully answered in any other way. Isolated great thinkers are rare in most fields. They are practically non-existent in philosophy.