You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

TheAncientGeek comments on Dissolving philosophy - Less Wrong Discussion

2 [deleted] 26 May 2015 10:45AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (30)

Comments (30)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 26 May 2015 05:57:36PM *  0 points [-]

I meant to improve it. Once we know what philosophers are trying to learn, we can try to find better methods to achieve the same.

Is that a fact? What's your track record?

By the fact that it works, where works defined as getting goals reached

If you could cash out the working thing in a rigorous way, you would be in to something. But the world has long been full of STEM types who can announce the two word version of "it works"....that does not change anything.

Of course, so far philosophy is highly unsucessful at settling any question, only negatively (i.e. something is probably not true), but this is where I think it could be helped if we define it as the discipline for looking for the less-conscious algorithms in the human mind.

But that is what psychology does,. Philosophers are interested in justice because they want just societies....they want improved versions of things.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 May 2015 07:08:23AM 0 points [-]

Is that a fact? What's your track record?

We, not me.

But that is what psychology does,. Philosophers are interested in justice because they want just societies....they want improved versions of things.

That is step 2. Once we get an algorithm that reliably predicts our feelings about justice, we can codify it into law.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 May 2015 08:01:58AM 0 points [-]

Is that a fact? What's your track record?

We, not me.

"Your" can be plural.

But that is what psychology does,. Philosophers are interested in justice because they want just societies....they want improved versions of things.

That is step 2. Once we get an algorithm that reliably predicts our feelings about justice, we can codify it into law.

Once we understand the principles behind things, we may accept contradictions to our feelings.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit