lukeprog comments on Original Research on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 29 October 2012 10:50PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 30 October 2012 01:01:06AM 5 points [-]

Dunno.

I bet math and logic papers have a higher frequency of valid results than medicine papers have of true results, and that LW math and logic results are more often valid than not.

Mainstream philosophy, however, is vastly less truth-tracking than medicine. I bet LW has a better philosophical track record than mainstream philosophy (merely by being naturalistic, reductionistic, relatively precise, cogsci-informed, etc.), but I'm not sure by how much.