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

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Comment author: Emile 24 March 2011 07:22:46PM 5 points [-]

We agree that people shouldn't go out and read Quine. We agree that almost everyone should be reading statistics and AI and cognitive science, not mainstream philosophy.

I think it would be good for LessWrong to have a bit more academic philosophers and students of philosophy, to have a slightly higher philosophers/programmers ratio (as long as it doesn't come with the expectation that everybody should understand a lot of concepts in philosophy that aren't in the sequences).