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FWIW, imo, wisdom is not a superadditive function of sets of opinions, nor will asking a group of people their opinions and averaging it constitute wisdom (but
by pizza 9y ago
FWIW, imo, wisdom is not a superadditive function of sets of opinions, nor will asking a group of people their opinions and averaging it constitute wisdom (but rather, the exact opposite - de facto, the least time-tested opinion possible), but the attempt to introduce more people to philosophy is worth commending.
Also, try to make the questions as defined as possible ("people" = individuals/bodies/ancestors/nationalities/citizenry? "same & equal" = equal in measures of 'potential'/so-called 'purity'/granted and guaranteed rights/talents and skills/past accomplishments/future ambitions/dreams and hopes/preferences and desires/moral systems and reputation/underlying hardware/historylessness/memorylessness/tabula rasa/free will/popularity?); maybe also make the question a binary one with only a true/false answer, because there are other ways to nitpick the current answers as being non-mutually-exclusive (i.e. does different imply non-equal at both a mathematical but also a social level?)
- sharma_pradeep 9y agoVery helpful comment. Thanks @pizza Opinions of a lot of people can help us form better understanding of external world(what others think about something). Isn't it?
- pizza 9y agoWell, only in very specific circumstances: the circumstances in which it is more important to know the knee-jerk opinions of others instead of the opinions that will be selected over time because of non-change/survival due to pragmatic usefulness. Consider that, for > 99% of the questions for which you might get an opinion out of people, the answers you receive will have never been actually applied in their lives - so, the answers you'll likely receive have never been empirically subjected to any real world test. The opinions that haven't been tested have a lower signal-to-noise ratio than those that have