One of the ways philosophy goes wrong is by using trivial problems as examples. "Where is the stick", or "is this really a table in front of me" are the Hello W

One of the ways philosophy goes wrong is by using trivial problems as examples. "Where is the stick", or "is this really a table in front of me" are the Hello World of epistemology. Just like you can't figure out which programming language is better than another by looking at Hello World, you can't evaluate a philosophy by its answer to where the stick is. You need to look at answers to hard problems, like "what should I do with my life?"