oh my god Rationalist everything maps onto Christianity how did I not notice this @selentelechia informs me this has been conventional wisdom for years
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Replying to @eigenrobot @selentelechia
isnt the basilisk pretty much pascals wager
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Replying to @ablative_sasha @alt_kia and
The Basilisk isn't the AI, the basilisk is the anxiety it gave some people. That was the entire point.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @alt_kia and
wat. the basilisk was a *critique* of rationality-paranoia?
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Replying to @_StevenFan @orthonormalist and
no (well, idk) "rationalism is basically christianity" is an old critique
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Replying to @selentelechia @_StevenFan and
It's a critique Abrahamics like to apply to everything tbh
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Replying to @orthonormalist @selentelechia and
belief systems made up by atheist moderns in the West are uniquely vulnerable to being basically just reskinned Christianity also the version of Christianity under the reskin is usually some dumb heresy
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @selentelechia and
If anything rationalism is reskinned Judaism (iffy still) but most people can't make that critique in an educated fashion
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Replying to @orthonormalist @selentelechia and
yeah, I figure rationalism is more "shares surface features with Christianity" than "is fundamentally derived from it"
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @orthonormalist and
it's not derived, there's just a lot of convergent evolution turns out ideas like original sin, heaven and hell, eschatology, etc. are common ideas that people independently come up with
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