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Comment author: joaolkf 04 November 2013 06:15:05PM 0 points [-]

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/progress-in-philosophy-revisited.html

Wait a minute, there's a senior philosopher, independently from MIRI/FHI, going around giving talks about how we should invest effort and money on philosophically addressing the most important problems? Why aren't we funding this? He should be 'lobbying' universities' deans and whatnot.

Also, you just mistakenly pictured Russell while attempting to draw another guy. Left dude IS Russell.

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2013 04:29:56AM 1 point [-]

The source material sent to the odesk cartoonist was a photo of Suppes, believe it or not. :)

Comment author: joaolkf 05 November 2013 04:37:01AM 0 points [-]