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

65 Post author: lukeprog 06 December 2012 12:42AM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 06 December 2012 03:29:43AM 6 points [-]

What is your strategy for doing this, other than posting articles on Less Wrong ?

Comment author: lukeprog 28 December 2012 03:44:36AM 5 points [-]

Hundreds of hours of personal conversation with promising people. Also, Louie is putting together a list of classes to take at various universities.

Comment author: Bugmaster 28 December 2012 01:11:17PM 2 points [-]

Hundreds of hours of personal conversation with promising people.

I don't think this approach scales very well. Though I may be overestimating the number of people who are interested in philosophy as well as capable of doing FAI research.

Also, Louie is putting together a list of classes to take at various universities.

This approach will scale a lot better, but it is riskier. Presumably, these specific classes will help the student to "avoid being mind-poisoned by a standard philosophical education"; but what if the students enjoy the course, and end up diving head-first into the standard philosophical education, after all ?