simplicio comments on Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 01 November 2010 01:54:54AM 8 points [-]

The videos are really well done, but he's confused about some things. For example, the way he thinks about beliefs is very strange, and smacks of the silly logic-chopping of "hard" vs "soft" atheism - "I believe there are no gods" vs "I do not believe there are gods."

An LWer would just ask him to assign a rough epistemic probability to the proposition "one or more (ontologically distinct) gods exist," and that would be the end of the whole sophistic conversation.