I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
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"Bayesian" Silicon Valley cultists very truly have this "prior" at the base of all their "priors" from which they derive first-principle probabilities for all of their beliefs:
Now we need :RaidenAmogus:
If someone needs a philosophy degree to tell them this though, it's probably time for them to stop having opinions
Seeing shit like Peterson and Shapiro, it really was better when right-wingers dismissed philosophy the same way they dismissed sociology and basic decency.