Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"

Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by Hexstream on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:19PM (#165976)

"I don't know much about Lisp beyond SICP, and if I claimed I did you would have no way of knowing whether or not I'm telling the truth."

Well, someone as good as or better than you could tell if you're telling the truth. Of course, unless he himself wanted to know if it's the truth then someone as good as or better than himself would have to validate his validation of your claims. So it's a recursive chain-of-trust problem thing.

PG is not exactly the last word on lisp, for example I think a good implementation of Common Lisp knows more about it than he does ;P

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Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by mechanical_fish on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:34PM (#165991)

I think a good implementation of Common Lisp knows more about it than he does.

Perhaps -- but despite decades of effort and ambition, that implementation of Common Lisp still doesn't write very good essays about itself. ;)

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