CaveJohnson comments on Rationality quotes January 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CaveJohnson 18 January 2012 07:36:34PM 15 points [-]

Most people are theists not because they were "reasoned into" believing in God, but because they applied Occam's razor at too early an age. Their simplest explanation for the reason that their parents, not to mention everyone else in the world, believed in God, was that God actually existed. The same could be said for, say, Australia.

--Mencius Moldbug

Comment author: gwern 18 January 2012 08:06:32PM 7 points [-]

Please remember sources; this is from "How I Stopped Believing in Democracy", 31 January 2008.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 18 January 2012 08:18:45PM *  5 points [-]

Is it conventional to add sources when it is an on-line? Sorry didn't know that was expected, since it wasn't in the posting rule set. Will remember to add sources in the future.

BTW gwern sometimes your attention to detail is as unnerving as it is helpful and impressive.

Comment author: gwern 18 January 2012 08:37:52PM 0 points [-]

Is it conventional to add sources when it is an on-line source?

I thought it was, but then, I may be interested only because it makes it easier in the future to track down citations if there is a title and URL (and because if I click on a URL, it goes into my archive bot).

BTW gwern sometimes your attention to detail is as unnerving as it is helpful and impressive.

It's just time-wasting... Heck, I time-waste on my time-wasting, I'm supposed to be adding citations on how people are biased against spaced repetition even when their scores are better with SR to my respective article.

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