TheOtherDave comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 March 2011 01:55:55AM 0 points [-]

I of course am not definitive here, but I strongly suspect that from EY's perspective it means precisely that.

Comment author: lukeprog 21 March 2011 02:13:16AM *  3 points [-]

If so, I don't think he can maintain that position consistently, since he has already benefited from the work of many mainstream philosophers, and continues to do so - for example Bostrom on anthropic reasoning.