Will_Newsome comments on Theists are wrong; is theism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 29 January 2011 01:28:35AM *  -1 points [-]

This conception lets you do a lot of fun associations. Since morality seems pretty tied up with good epistemology (preferences and beliefs are both types of knowledge, after all), and since knowledge is power (see Eliezer's posts on engines of cognition), then you would expect this conception of God to not only be the most moral (omnibenevolent) but the most knowledgeable (omniscient) and powerful (omnipotent). Because God embodies correctness He is thus convergent for minds approximating Bayesianism (like math) and has a universally very short description length (omnipresent), and is accessible from many different computations (arguably personal).

Delicious delicious metacontrarianism...

Comment author: NihilCredo 16 February 2011 07:23:20AM 1 point [-]

It's like Scholastic mad-libs!

Comment author: wnoise 29 January 2011 02:16:08AM 1 point [-]

Preferences are entangled with beliefs, certainly, but I don't see why I would consder them to be knowledge.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 29 January 2011 03:00:16AM 1 point [-]

What is your operational definition of knowledge?