Wei_Dai comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 04 December 2012 07:20:48PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, it sucks that you can't do good philosophy without knowing a ton of other stuff, but that's life.

Agreed!

We don't listen to electrical engineers when they complain about needing to know nitty-gritty calculus, and that's a year of study for someone with an IQ over 150.

What? Surely lots of electrical engineers have IQ less than 150 (the average being approximately 126 ETA: actually that's the average for EE PhD student, but still). How did they pass their calculus courses?

Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 07:23:46PM 4 points [-]

What? Surely lots of electrical engineers have IQ less than 150 (the average being approximately 126). How did they pass their calculus courses?

I assume they meant that an EE with IQ > 150 would require a year; many places distribute their calculus courses over two years, and some students require longer.

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