As someone who has studied philosophy seriously, I assure you that your model is pretty inaccurate, at least for top-tier American universities. It is not true that you are forbidden from actually evaluating arguments. It is true that instructors in college philosophy courses, especially at the upper level, won't usually tell you which argument is better, or which conclusion is the right one. But that is because the skill that they are attempting to train is the ability to figure these things out for yourself. It is completely false that the student is forbidden from making judgments. The student is actively encouraged to make judgments. In fact, in upper level courses the student is evaluated almost entirely on her or his ability to evaluate and construct arguments, not on the ability to memorize and regurgitate what philosopher X said about philosopher Y.

On the 2 + 2 = 3 article, pretty much all of the ideas in there are covered in a standard philosophy undergrad curriculum, although the students are not told that they are the right ideas, and contradictory ideas are covered as well.

I'll backtrack from "last post" for 6 months to last conversation for 6 months. Viliam, you're a reasonably upvoted dude. You seem pretty normal for these parts. Exactly how annoyed do I get to be that your response to me is dumb? Isn't the commitment to some aspects of rationality exemplified by my complete inability to restrain my annoyance with your being an idiot of some value? Yes, yes, I could be better still.

Again, I think your response is very typically LessWrongian: Wordy, vacant, stupid, irrational, over-confident with weaseliness to pretend otherwise, etc, etc. Do I get downvoted for telling you you're being an idiot in thinking you need an undergrads knowledge in every field in order to know any part of the Sequences are outside that range? I didn't ask for an exhaustive list; I asked for one post exceeding an undergrads knowledge in that field. Do I need to explain that in more detail? Do I lose points for being annoyed you took the time to write all those words and not a second to think about them. Do I get to be insulted that your model of me is basically retarded, from my point of view. Maybe that's all you folks are capable of. Fine. What a shocking coincidence that your example comes from an area you never studied seriously, when I basically asked for just a single example of the opposite. The post you link to is fine but totally and completely uninformative to me.

Listen, of course you can defend your stupidity if you assume I'm a moron. You can say, well, if I don't know what they study in philosophy, I can't say blah isn't covered. Can we not have that idiotic conversation? Can we just acknowledge that if you have a good physics knowledge in some area, you know when the conversation is on physics in that area and when it is exceeded without knowing all other fields? Do I have to be as wordy as you? I clearly am being so; I didn't even bother reading the middle of your post. Just stupidity.

That's not very important, and certainly one of dozens of things wrong. However, it's something you'll see.

So, I pointed out an error you made. LessWrongians like when people point out errors they make. The only reason I pointed it out is that I was annoyed. Ideally you'd find some reason other than annoyance for me to talk to you (repeating the request: A post in the sequences that is informative). You can also conclude it is not worth talking to me when that is all that motivates me. Maybe you think you can modify my behavior, but not without a carrot. Perhaps upvotes and downvotes are supposed to serve in that way, but they don't for me.