Eugine_Nier comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 July 2013 05:22:10AM 0 points [-]

If you want to include philosophy in the "mind" part, it's my understanding that you need to be a trained academic philosopher to reliably tell fancy garbage and acceptable academic philosophy apart, so the approach probably won't work there.

My understanding is that there is considerable overlap between these two categories.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 13 July 2013 07:08:09AM 0 points [-]

That's another problem. You might not be able to trust an academic philosopher's judgment on whether a bit of philosophy is actually any good as much as, say, an academic mathematician's judgment on whether a bit of mathematics is any good.

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