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Hyena comments on LW Philosophers versus Analytics - Less Wrong Discussion

38 Post author: potato 28 November 2011 03:40PM

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Comment author: Hyena 01 December 2011 02:23:40AM 1 point [-]

Your target populations are very different. Your average philosophy undergrad is closer to your average undergrad than is the average LeWer. Pitting LeWers against philosophy undergrads who spend substantial amounts of their time on unassigned philosophical investigation and discussion seems a more fair fight, at least if you also handicap LeWers for age.

Comment author: potato 02 December 2011 05:55:39PM 1 point [-]

Most people that major in philosophy in my school do do a fair amount of philosophy on their own time.