Kaj_Sotala comments on Epistemic Luck - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2010 12:02AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 February 2010 08:20:09PM 2 points [-]

This got pretty heavily downvoted (-4 points before I gave it an upvote), but I think it does have a good point. It doesn't need to mean (as I suppose the downvoters assumed) that religion and atheism would be an equal footing. Rather, it can be taken as a reminder of the fact that a person's atheism isn't yet enough to show that they're actually sane. See science as attire and related posts.

Comment author: roland 09 February 2010 10:49:42PM 0 points [-]

Exactly! And using your words I would add that a person's atheism isn't yet enough to show that they're actually saner/more rational than a religious person.