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>Many philosophers—particularly amateur philosophers, and ancient philosophers—share a dangerous instinct: If you give them a question, they try to answer it.
by Houshalter 12y ago
>Many philosophers—particularly amateur philosophers, and ancient philosophers—share a dangerous instinct: If you give them a question, they try to answer it.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- spacehome 12y agoEliezer is right, and I would add a corollary that you almost always run into trouble trying to fit objects into human-defined abstract categories.