Interesting. If my experience is representative, then a sizable subset of Less Wrongers are what the author calls epistemic-skeptical anti-intellectuals.
It seems slightly odd that there are many on LessWrong whose justification for not looking deeply into the philosophy literature is that philosophers “are too prone to overestimate their own cleverness” and end up shooting their own philosophical feet off, but that subset of LessWrong doesn’t seem to overlap much with those who are epistemic-skeptical anti-intellectuals in the more political sense. Admittedly my own view is that the former subset is basically wrong whereas the latter is basically right, but naively viewed the two positions would seem to go together much as they do with neoconservatives. …I feel like I’m not carving up reality correctly.
Interesting. If my experience is representative, then a sizable subset of Less Wrongers are what the author calls epistemic-skeptical anti-intellectuals.
It seems slightly odd that there are many on LessWrong whose justification for not looking deeply into the philosophy literature is that philosophers “are too prone to overestimate their own cleverness” and end up shooting their own philosophical feet off, but that subset of LessWrong doesn’t seem to overlap much with those who are epistemic-skeptical anti-intellectuals in the more political sense. Admittedly my own view is that the former subset is basically wrong whereas the latter is basically right, but naively viewed the two positions would seem to go together much as they do with neoconservatives. …I feel like I’m not carving up reality correctly.