why in general should we presume groups of people with academic qualifications have their strongest incentives towards truth?
Maybe because these people have been surprisingly accurate? In addition, it’s not that Eliezer disputes that general presumption: he routinely relies on results in the natural and social sciences without feeling the need to justify in each case why we should trust e.g. computer scientists, economists, neuroscientists, game theorists, and so on.
Maybe because these people have been surprisingly accurate? In addition, it’s not that Eliezer disputes that general presumption: he routinely relies on results in the natural and social sciences without feeling the need to justify in each case why we should trust e.g. computer scientists, economists, neuroscientists, game theorists, and so on.
Yeah, that’s the sort of discussion that seems to me most relevant.