Monday, May 4, 2015

What is "Good" Advice?

 
 "Is the distinguishing factor between good advice and bad advice only in the outcome, or can we know it in advance?  Does advice have to come from another person, or can we read it in a book or access it from an algorithm?  Is advice defined by its being given or only by its being received?  Or is advice just so varied and so broad in how each of us perceives it, that the only intelligent thing we can really say is what Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously opined (about pornography), 'I know it when I see it.' "