MartinB comments on Costs and Benefits of Scholarship - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 03:56:34AM *  2 points [-]

Naming Jeremy Bentham shows off scholarship? I doubt that works on Less Wrong. Everybody knows who Bentham is. I just named Bentham to give an example.

But I agree with your overall point, so I'll add it to the list! Thanks.

Comment author: MartinB 22 March 2011 08:30:38AM 3 points [-]

Everybody knows who Bentham is. I just named Bentham to give an example.

Not me.

Comment author: Emile 22 March 2011 11:00:44AM *  2 points [-]

Neither do I. I may have heard the name in my (French) high school philosophy classes, but unlike those of Locke, Hobbes, Hume or John Stuart Mill (the other philsophers of roughly that place/period I can think of), it didn't stick.

Comment author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 01:08:13PM *  5 points [-]

Thanks for piping up. I guess I'm too far down the philosophy wormhole to know which names people do and don't know. Sorry.

Comment author: Raemon 22 March 2011 02:39:44PM 2 points [-]

Me either.

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