RobbBB comments on Rationality Quotes September 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobbBB 04 September 2013 11:27:18PM 3 points [-]

To steel-man somervta's point, it might be that philosophy decreases the quality of your bullshit meter by making it overactive. I don't find it plausible that philosophy generally makes people hyper-credulous, but I could buy that it generally makes people hyperskeptical, quibbling, self-undermining, and/or directionless.