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Re:A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham) by agentcoops on Saturday December 20, 2008 @09:46PM (#405103)
You do. Have you read any of the literature on multi-agent systems design? Or the literature on belief-revision/database updating?

There's a significant community of modern philosophers/logicians actively contributing to developments in CS. Also, check out the Philosophy department at CMU: they've got someone employed full-time to work on implementations of philosophically-inspired causal inference systems.

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Re:A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham) by Prrometheus on Sunday December 21, 2008 @03:21AM (#405313)
Thanks! I actually thought your essay was pretty interesting, but I didn't know how to include that nuance in my comment without making my comment less readable. Perhaps I am too much of a Grahamite!
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