HonoreDB comments on Mini-review: 'Proving History: Bayes' Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus' - Less Wrong

18 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2012 07:20PM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 01 February 2012 08:46:25PM *  7 points [-]

I have a grudge against this topic for two reasons. One is that this is how I discovered that the tribal signaling aspect of belief doesn't follow the expected conjunction rules. Among secular Jews,

  • Professing that "Moses probably didn't exist" gets a "meh."
  • Professing that "Jesus probably existed" gets a "meh."
  • Professing that "Moses probably didn't exist and Jesus probably did" gets a "You goddamn self-hating Jew! You can't prove anything!"

The other is that people trying to write the phrase "the historicity of Jesus" will write "the histocracy of Jesus" maybe .1% of the time, which clogs my Google results.

Comment author: prase 01 February 2012 09:53:39PM *  3 points [-]

What the hell is "histocracy"? The rule of tissues? I have never seen it, even as a typo.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2012 12:51:51AM 1 point [-]

Histocracy Is HonoreDB's idea for goup decision making.

Comment author: prase 03 February 2012 12:33:34AM 0 points [-]

Somehow I missed that article, thanks.