wedrifid comments on Reading the Sequences before Starting to Post: Costs and Benefits - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Normal_Anomaly 31 March 2011 02:01AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (22)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 March 2011 02:48:52PM 5 points [-]

Perhaps less importantly, as an average reader can understand the debate and form ver own opinion, issues like the Zombie World are still being debated by philosophers.

And on an arguably related note the existence of God is still being debated by apologists.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 31 March 2011 05:30:37PM *  1 point [-]

Arguably true (upvoted). On the other hand, see Emile's comment on filtering. I don't think anyone who can't deal with atheism being assumed is going to be able to deal with the rest of LW.

Comment author: MinibearRex 31 March 2011 09:15:53PM 4 points [-]

I did it for a while. When I first started reading less wrong, I was a (admittedly pretty liberal) theist. I was interested in the practical applications for scientific research, and so just didn't worry very much about the religious issues presented. Ultimately, some personal events, and the training in rationality I'd gotten were finally enough to get me to deconvert. Never underestimate how easy it to compartmentalize.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 31 March 2011 09:45:24PM 0 points [-]

Good for you and thank you for making me change my mind/confidence estimate about something. Voted up.