SoullessAutomaton comments on Twelve Virtues booklet printing? - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 April 2009 02:40PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 11 April 2009 03:12:25PM *  3 points [-]

It depends on the target audience. For handing out at science fiction conventions, as Eliezer mentions, or for appealing to people with weak and poorly-considered beliefs in the supernatural, the mystical-sounding tone might work, while the Hanson-ish tone might just bore them into ignoring it.

For people who already fancy themselves scientific, rational-minded people the presentation would probably need to be different. i.e., if you wanted to "convert" to carefully considered rationalism a staunch atheist who rejected religion on largely emotional grounds yet thinks they're so much cleverer than those theists.