Eugine_Nier comments on Costs and Benefits of Scholarship - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 March 2011 02:04:20PM 5 points [-]

What evidence is there that some fields of study make their followers dumber?

That section of the post sounds a bit like a mind-killer shout-out.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 March 2011 03:57:20AM 0 points [-]

Some fields are based on anti-epistemology. If you're no careful it can contamination your reasoning.