Emile comments on Rational subjects and rational practitioners - Less Wrong

30 Post author: RichardKennaway 11 December 2012 02:40PM

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Comment author: Emile 11 December 2012 05:37:43PM 4 points [-]

Are you sure "distance from objective knowledge" is the best x-axis to make this observation? "The closer you get to humans, the worse the science gets" is a fairly common quote

"Far from objective knowledge", "subjective" and "close to humans" are different ways of saying pretty much the same thing - though I agree that "close to humans" may make some reasons for the problem a bit more obvious.