PhilGoetz comments on Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 17 August 2009 06:41:02PM *  4 points [-]

I did a little poking on Wikipedia.

  • An atheist, culturally Jewish
  • A Dominican friar
  • A Methodist
  • A possible Muslim, although the Wikipedia page doesn't come out and actually say it and there's some evidence that he is a non-theist and critical of Islam
  • A non-theist with a Christian upbringing and general theist sympathies
  • An atheist raised Orthodox Jewish
  • Christopher-freakin'-Hitchens
  • A Church of England priest
  • Another atheist
  • Unclear what Jerome Groopman is
  • Another atheist
  • A Catholic
  • A guy with a very nontraditional definition of God, sort of reminiscent of what byrnema has said

Given the demographics of the population at large and the content of the question the contributors were answering, I think four actual Christians out of thirteen contributors is very modest.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 August 2009 09:07:10PM 3 points [-]

Look at the past winners of the Templeton prize. If you look at the winners before 2000, a lot of them were evangelists who had nothing to do with science+religion: Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Bill Bright, Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Kyung-Chik Han Mother Theresa.

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