A really intelligent response,

Er, I thought it was overall pretty lame, e.g. the whole question-begging w.r.t. the 'prior probability of omnibenevolent omnipowerful thingy' thingy (nothing annoys me more than abuses of probability theory these days, especially abuses of algorithmic probability theory). Perhaps you are conceding too much in order to appear reasonable. Jesus wasn't very polite.

By the way, in case you're not overly familiar with the heuristics and biases literature, let me give you a hint: it sucks. At least the results that most folk around her cite have basically nothing to do with rationality. There's some quite good stuff with tons of citations, e.g. Gigerenzer's, but Eliezer barely mentioned it to Less Wrong (as fastandfrugal.com which he endorsed) and therefore as expected Less Wrong doesn't know about it. (Same with interpretations of quantum mechanics, as Mitchell Porter often points out. I really hope that Eliezer is pulling some elaborate prank on humanity. Maybe he's doing it unwittingly.)

Anyway the upshot is that when people tell you about 'confirmation bias' as if it existed in the sense they think it does then they probably don't know what the hell they're talking about and you should ignore them. At the very least don't believe them until you've investigated the literature yourself. I did so and was shocked at how downright anti-informative the field is, and less shocked but still shocked at how incredibly useless statistics is (both Bayesianism as a theoretical normative measure and frequentism as a practical toolset for knowledge acquisition). The opposite happened with the parapsychology literature, i.e. low prior, high posterior. Let's just say that it clearly did not confirm my preconceptions; lolol.

Lastly, towards the esoteric end: All roads lead to Rome, if you'll pardon a Catholicism. If they don't it's not because the world is mad qua mad; it is because it is, alas, sinful. An easy way to get to hell is to fall into a fully-general-counterargument blackhole, or a literal blackhole maybe. Those things freak me out.

(P.S. My totally obnoxious arrogance is mostly just a passive aggressive way of trolling LW. I'm not actually a total douchebag IRL. /recursive-compulsive-self-justification)