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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Dec 2017

    Fallacy 3: "We must act short of certainty." Best action under uncertainty is not faith.https://nyti.ms/2prBjm9 

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      1. Marcus Orr‏ @MarkieOrr 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Every action you take has some degree of uncertainty. All this point is showing is that all our actions contain some degree of faith in their impetus. No one ever claimed that faith is a specific action - "I'm not sure if I should run away or faith".

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      2. Rosie Notes‏ @RosieNotes 25 Dec 2017
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        The social construct of religion is (perhaps will always be) extreme for most, and a popular doctrine proclaimed by man. If you separate "faith" from religion, faith = innate instincts. And the best action under uncertainty is "faith" in the self, keeping the collective alive.

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      3. Robert Janda‏ @RJsnda 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @RosieNotes @sapinker

        ...innate...programmed.

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      4. Rosie Notes‏ @RosieNotes 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @RJsnda @sapinker

        Scenario: you're on a jog, see an infant crying, it clearly needs help (whatever color or terrain) -- you're the only person around to help or ignore. Do you let it die, or you help? What's you path? Programmed or innate? We're on top for a reason, not about color or religion.

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      1. Inus‏ @Inus62163313 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Because of pervasive uncertainity that encloses our subjective mental model of reality every time we first perform an interaction with objective reality It is an act of faith from within our subjective reality In other words we have to believe the maths!!

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      1. God's Ventriloquist‏ @godsven3loquist 25 Dec 2017
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        An adult in the 21st century wrote this article

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      2. Devin Olio‏ @OlioDevin 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Why not?

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      1. LOWCRAFT‏ @lowcraftmusic 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Older white men telling us to believe in an old white man in the sky. Its so ridiculous, i cant even talk to these people. Same for everyone else who let their lives being guided by others who are clearly manipulative greedy wrong people.

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      1. Tom Keller‏ @timrinaldo 26 Dec 2017
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        Recognizing and assessing costs, benefits and risk. Not hoping things will work out.

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      1. ngsq12‏ @ngsq12 26 Dec 2017
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        No faith without doubt.

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      1. Mitchel Lewis 👨🏻‍💻‏ @stautistic 25 Dec 2017
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        Because there are many kinds of delusion?🤣

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      1. Scott W.‏ @ScottDollaBillz 25 Dec 2017
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        So what is the best action in uncertainty? Some probabilistic reasoning?

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      1. Bernard H. ✡️‏ @yeshuabyoseph 25 Dec 2017
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        The philosophy of life lived, developed over a lifetime lived,isn't that hard to fathom.

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      1. D.B Cooper‏ @hi81761504 25 Dec 2017
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        True faith asks more questions than it answers. I don't need to 'see' love to feel it and know that it's real🙏🏻

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      1. Badder than Satan, Drunker than God‏ @GeorgeHemingto1 25 Dec 2017
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        What about William James?

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      1. Peter Kelly‏ @infoanrchy 25 Dec 2017
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        Science asks questions which may never be answered. Religion gives answers which may never be questioned.

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      2. Tris Tristofferson  🐉‏ @Tristofferson 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        So lets not act based on Axiom's that assert all humans have universal value going forward Thanks for posting this shit during Christmas, good to know you can't let the Christians have just one day to indulge their beliefs and traditions before you claim they're all bollocks

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      3. patrick ashland‏ @Dewey8Dewey 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Tristofferson @sapinker

        If you find his post so distasteful why follow him?

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      4. Tris Tristofferson  🐉‏ @Tristofferson 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Dewey8Dewey @sapinker

        1. Not everything he posts is distasteful. 2. I wouldn't want to live in my own echochamber

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