Peterdjones 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: Peterdjones 07 December 2012 11:15:44AM -1 points [-]

If someone had interests relevant to mathematics, and they only studied math from before 1900, they would be missing a great number of seminal works, and have very little knowledge of modern mathematics, even if there were tons of amazing and influential mathematicians before that point.

But your original claim was not "study the new stuff, it's better", you claim was that there were no advances before the new stuff.

Comment author: magfrump 07 December 2012 09:43:59PM 1 point [-]

That was not what I intended my original claim to be, and I think the spirit of lukeprog's post was centered on the claim that one should "study the new stuff, it's better."

If I didn't communicate that that was my intention clearly, I'm sorry, I hope we're on the same page now.

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