Manfred comments on Atheist or Agnostic? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 17 February 2012 11:11:07AM 0 points [-]

I think this needs to take the social aspect into account more. People care a lot about labeling differences like "will this person say I'm wrong," even if the people so labeled have nigh-identical probability assignments.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 February 2012 12:43:42PM *  0 points [-]

Are you talking about the kind of self-described agnostic who does think that God and invisible fairies have the same likelihood of existing? In that case, yeah, I think its a bit pointless to call themselves agnostics.

Comment author: Manfred 18 February 2012 02:31:02AM 0 points [-]

Well, but there is a point - a social point, and it labels pretty well their interactions with people about religion.