This doesn’t seem like a great idea to me for two reasons:
1. The notion of explicitly manipulating one’s beliefs about something as central as religion for non-truthseeking reasons seems very sketchy, especially when the core premise of EA relies on an accurate understanding of highly uncertain subjects.
2. Am I correct in saying the ultimate aim of this strategy is to shift religious groups’ dogma from (what they believe to be) divinely revealed truth to [divinely revealed truth + random things EAs want]? I’m genuinely not sure if I interpreted the post correctly, but that seems like an unnecessarily adversarial move against a set of organized groups with largely benign goals.
Currently a work in progress feature that is admin only. (And has been in that state for a while unfortunately.) I’ve reverted this post. Do you know what the sequence of events is that caused it to get garbled?
Thank you! I’m not sure, but I assume that I accidentally highlighted part of the post while trying to fix a typo, then accidentally e.g. pressed “ctrl-v” instead of “v” (I often instinctively copy half-finished posts into the clipboard). That seems like a pretty weird accident, but I’m pretty sure it was just user error rather than anything to do with the EA forum.
This doesn’t seem like a great idea to me for two reasons:
1. The notion of explicitly manipulating one’s beliefs about something as central as religion for non-truthseeking reasons seems very sketchy, especially when the core premise of EA relies on an accurate understanding of highly uncertain subjects.
2. Am I correct in saying the ultimate aim of this strategy is to shift religious groups’ dogma from (what they believe to be) divinely revealed truth to [divinely revealed truth + random things EAs want]? I’m genuinely not sure if I interpreted the post correctly, but that seems like an unnecessarily adversarial move against a set of organized groups with largely benign goals.
This post seems to have become garbled when I tried to fix a typo, any idea how I can restore the original verson?
Currently a work in progress feature that is admin only. (And has been in that state for a while unfortunately.) I’ve reverted this post. Do you know what the sequence of events is that caused it to get garbled?
Thank you! I’m not sure, but I assume that I accidentally highlighted part of the post while trying to fix a typo, then accidentally e.g. pressed “ctrl-v” instead of “v” (I often instinctively copy half-finished posts into the clipboard). That seems like a pretty weird accident, but I’m pretty sure it was just user error rather than anything to do with the EA forum.