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ChristianKl comments on Philosophy professors fail on basic philosophy problems - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: shminux 15 July 2015 06:41PM

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Comment author: shminux 15 July 2015 10:10:13PM 3 points [-]

I would assume that detecting the danger of the framing bias, such as "200 of 600 people will be saved" vs "400 of 600 people will die" is elementary enough and so is something an aspired moral philosopher ought to learn to recognize and avoid before she can be allowed to practice in the field. Otherwise all their research is very much suspect.

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 July 2015 10:58:33PM 2 points [-]

Being able to detect a bias and actually being able to circumvent it are two different skills.