Shalmanese comments on Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Shalmanese 20 December 2009 10:09AM

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Comment author: Shalmanese 21 December 2009 03:25:01AM 2 points [-]

If you think Christians are Christians (to pick an arbitrary example) because of time constraints, then you're in for a rude shock.

Comment author: AngryParsley 21 December 2009 08:20:36AM 3 points [-]

Actually, I do think the reason a lot of Christians are Christians is because it takes a lot of time for someone else to deconvert them.

To deconvert a religious person with a high school education, you usually need to touch on a lot of topics: the scientific method, beliefs and evidence, anthropics, biology, evolution, the problem of evil, cosmology, reductionism, and cognitive biases. It takes time for people to explain and comprehend all these things.

Comment author: magfrump 21 December 2009 04:03:33AM 1 point [-]

Conjecture: the amount of time needed to escape the Christian paradigm is arbitrarily large (say, a year of concentrated effort) so Christians are Christians due to time constraints because they don't see being a Christian as an issue to put time into (reference to the post where Eliezer talked about robots lifting refrigerators and teacups or whatever goes here)