ChristianKl comments on The Inefficiency of Theoretical Discovery - Less Wrong Discussion
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There a lot of basic work in proability came from mathematicians like Bernoulli and Laplace.
The same goes for the "scientific method". Most scientists just do whatever they feel make sense and that let's them use their toys.
Can you point to breakthroughs by academic 20th/21th century philosophers?
taps out for now