komponisto comments on LW should go into mainstream academia ? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 15 May 2015 05:48:40AM -1 points [-]

Ok, but before we turn everything upside down, can we think a little about why academia ended up being the way it is?

Why do you assume I haven't?

Stop expecting short inferential distances!

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 15 May 2015 09:05:46AM *  2 points [-]

Because you wrote one sentence without actually giving the argument. So I went with my prior on your argument. And my prior about arguments that argue for drastically changing the existing order of things is they aren't right.