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

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Comment author: lukeprog 05 December 2012 07:23:16AM 9 points [-]

Good answer.

Qiaochu_Yuan has a point, but Hume was conspicuously right about so many things that almost everyone around him was wrong about, I think there might indeed be some "Humeness" having an effect going on there. Maybe: unusual good rationality. Or maybe he was a plant from our simulators.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2012 04:25:11PM 4 points [-]

Or maybe he was a plant from our simulators.

What about Epicurus.