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Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:13:36 GMT

I think one of us may be misunderstanding Eliezer Yudkowsky's point - I thought he was referring to the kind of argument which goes:

Look, the problem of induction states that you have to assume something in order to draw conclusions at all, so that means that I have the freedom to assume that the God of the Bible created the entire universe for the benefit of humanity, whom He created in His image. You can't tell me your assumptions are better, because any assumptions are necessarily arbitrary.

What does objecting to this kind of stupidity have to do with empiricism?

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