I’m pretty Atheist, but I find the ‘answer’ to the theism question per LW or similar woefully rudimentary compared to state of the art discussion in the field.
This will be a pertinent critique if the aim of LessWrong is to be a skeptics forum, created to make the most canonical debunkings (serving a societal purpose akin to Snopes). It seems much less relevant if you are trying to understand the world, unless you maybe have a very strong intuition or evidence that sophistication is highly correlated with truth.
This will be a pertinent critique if the aim of LessWrong is to be a skeptics forum, created to make the most canonical debunkings (serving a societal purpose akin to Snopes). It seems much less relevant if you are trying to understand the world, unless you maybe have a very strong intuition or evidence that sophistication is highly correlated with truth.