To overwhelmingly self-ID as atheist rather than *at least* agnostic indicates a serious lacuna in group reasoning: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/17/ssc-survey-2017-results/ …
My non-trolling-I-swear take on the rationalists is that the dearth of theists in their ranks suggests they aren't: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/ …
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Ah, the old "atheism is actually a religion/cult/phase/trend" argument, dressed up for its big moment in the NYT! Same terrible argument.
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Why is it terrible?
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It's like saying you not being an NFL player actually means you're somehow and NFL player in a way you aren't aware of. Nope.
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Hey, LessWrong and Yudkowsky's writing on how to change your mind was *really* helpful in my conversion.
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Everything I know abouit empiricism I learned from St Thomas Aquinas
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Nearly 20% self-ID as theists -- hardly a dearth. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/17/ssc-survey-2017-results/ …
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This is like saying "the fact that there aren't at least some atheists in churches means theists really aren't theists." Huh?
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Which God should they consider? Should they acknowledge that Zeus might exist? Religion hella irrational, man
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What the hell is that guy even talking about? If all these PhD's disagree with each-other on most things their field is not a science.
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You don't see physicists or biologists who fundamentally disagree with each-other on the simplest practical questions.
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Anyway, the rest of the stuff sounds like nonsense on both sides of the argument.
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Does the dearth of flat earthers in their ranks also indicate that?
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You haven’t confronted the possibility that theism is irrational. (As an aside, I’m not a fan of the “Rationalists”)
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2/ Why undergo treatment now that he will dismiss 15 years hence as "out of date." Which treatments, if any, are durable?
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