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Just because CS people have a tendency to vastly overestimate their qualifications in other fields doesn't mean uniformed speculation about an incredibly well-d
by bkoa 13y ago
Just because CS people have a tendency to vastly overestimate their qualifications in other fields doesn't mean uniformed speculation about an incredibly well-discussed topic in philosophy is appropriate for HackerNews.
- matt-attack 13y agoWell, maybe CS people realize most of the good questions in life simply cannot be answered by philosophers. They're just ill-equipped. It's really up to the physicists.
- chrismonsanto 13y agoThat's very elitist. Academic philosophers do not 'own' philosophy. What is the harm of us ordinary folk discussing it? (Also, if anything is inappropriate for HN, it's snarky one-liners. Please don't do that.)
- coldtea 13y agoYou seem to have vastly overestimated your qualifications in philosophy. Any rookie in philosophy 101 can tell you that tons of philosophers have been in favor of EVERYBODY participating in philosophical discussions, and that leaving philosophy to the "experts" is mostly an idea of academic philosophers (that is, people with very little contribution to the history of philosophy, and a whole lot of secondary and derived output of annotating the historically important --and usually "amateur"-- philosophers).