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

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Comment author: undermind 06 December 2012 03:07:27AM 1 point [-]

I still don't see this as sufficiently different from a blue-green tribal fight - there's a lot of "quantitative/Bayesian approaches are the way to go, and everyone else sucks". By targeting everyone who is not an established philosopher, you're just demonstrating that you're smart enough to make this divide along generational lines (which is, as Kuhn tells us, how new paradigms succeed).