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Comment author: Will_Newsome 05 April 2012 11:30:07AM *  2 points [-]

I wrote all that stuff back when I was still new to a lot of the ideas and hadn't really organized them well in my head. I also included a lot of needless metaphysical stuff just to troll people. The general argument for academic theism that I would make these days would be phrased entirely in terms of decision theory and theoretical computer science, and would look significantly more credible than my embarrassingly amateurish arguments from a year or so ago. Separately, I know of better soteriological arguments these days, but I don't take them as seriously and there's no obvious way to make them look credible to LessWrong. If I was setting forth my arguments for real then I would also take a lot more care to separate my theological and eschatological arguments.

Anyway, I'd like to set forth those arguments at some point, but I'm not sure when. I'm afraid that if I put forth an argument then it will be assumed that I supported that argument to the best of my ability, when in reality writing for a diverse audience stresses me out way too much for me to put sustained effort into writing out justifications for any argument.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 April 2012 12:11:46PM 5 points [-]

The "least restrictive, obviously acceptable thing" might be to collect a list of prerequisites in decision theory and CT that would be necessary to understand the main argument. You made a list of this kind (though for different purposes) several years ago, but I still haven't been able to trace from then how you ended up here.