jkaufman comments on Outside View(s) and MIRI's FAI Endgame - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jkaufman 31 August 2013 11:58:54AM 3 points [-]

Did people in 1711 classify their work into "Math, Phys, Chem, Bio, and Phil"? What if ideas that we call Philosophy now are a subset of what someone in 1711 would be working on?

Comment author: alex_zag_al 19 October 2014 02:13:31PM 0 points [-]

They wouldn't classify their work that way, and in fact I thought that was the whole point of surveying these other fields. Like, for example, a question for philosophers in the 1600s is now a question for biologists, and that's why we have to survey biologists to find out if it was resolved.