shminux comments on Philosophy professors fail on basic philosophy problems - Less Wrong Discussion
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If no one can overcome bias, does that make all their professional output useless? Do you want to buy "philosophers are crap" at the expense of "everyone is crap"?
That's the consistency. What about the correctness?
Note that biases might affect the meta-level reasoning that leads to the choice of algorithm. Unless you think it's algorithms all the way down.
Which would make mathematicians the logical choice to solve all real world problems....if only real world problems were as explicitly and unambiguous statable, as free indeterminism , as fee of incomplete information and mess, as math problems.
Re: everyone is crap
But that is not a problem. Iff everyone is crap, I want to believe that everyone is crap.
Its a problem, if you want to bash one particular group.