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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on What do professional philosophers believe, and why? - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: RobbBB 01 May 2013 02:40PM

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Comment author: Thrasymachus 04 May 2013 10:58:48AM 3 points [-]

I agree with the signs of the effects you suggest re. philosophers being incentivized to disagree, but that shouldn't explain (taking the strongest example of my case, two-boxing), why the majority of philosophers take the objectively less plausible view.

But plausibly LWers have the same sort of effects explaining their contra-philosophy-experts consensus. Also I don't see how the LWers are more likely to be put in touch with reality re. these questions than philosophers.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 04 May 2013 06:49:40PM 2 points [-]

Also I don't see how the LWers are more likely to be put in touch with reality re. these questions than philosophers.

Fair point.