NancyLebovitz comments on Helpless Individuals - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2009 11:10AM

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Comment author: komponisto 24 November 2010 08:31:42PM * 1 point [-]

Any musicians at the level of Beethoven lately?

Yes, but you haven't heard of them, because they're obscure academics.

(And their music wouldn't necessarily be intelligible to you either, due to the musical analogue of inferential distance.)

Nowadays universities play the role that aristocratic patrons did in the past.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 December 2010 01:29:59AM 2 points [-]

Yes, but you haven't heard of them, because they're obscure academics.

Who are they?

Comment author: komponisto 04 December 2010 02:02:09AM 1 point [-]

See here.