loup-vaillant comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loup-vaillant 27 June 2011 10:02:45PM 1 point [-]

I'm late, but… is there substantial chain of cause and effect between the discovery of useful conclusions from mainstream philosophy, and the use of those conclusions by Eliezer? Counter-factually, if those conclusions were not drawn, would it be less likely that Eliezer found them anyway?

Eliezer seems to deny this chain of cause and effect. I wonder to what extent you think such a denial is unjustified.