Aron comments on Whence Your Abstractions? - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 November 2008 01:07AM

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Comment author: Aron 20 November 2008 04:31:14AM 0 points [-]

The Socrates paragraph stands out to me. It doesn't seem sporting to downplay one approach in comparison to another by creating two scenarios, with one being what a five-year old might say and the other being what a college grad (or someone smart enough to go to college) might say. Can that point be illustrated without giving such an unbalanced appearance?

The problem of course (to the discussion and to the above example)is: how much do you think you know about the underlying mechanics of what you are analyzing?