lukeprog comments on Costs and Benefits of Scholarship - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 02:19AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2011 07:50:03AM 3 points [-]

"Everybody knows who Bentham is", is precisely the factor that makes association with him prestigious.

Comment author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 12:59:55PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Well, this is news to me.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2011 06:50:59PM 5 points [-]

In other words, there's both showing off by obscurity and showing off by association with well-known names.