gjm comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

24 Post author: JulianMorrison 19 April 2009 09:23PM

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Comment author: MBlume 20 April 2009 07:54:08AM 2 points [-]

sigh You're probably right.

I have a lot of theists in my family and in my social circle, and part of me still wants to view them as potential future rationalists.

Comment author: gjm 20 April 2009 12:46:09PM 3 points [-]

They are potential future rationalists. They're even (something like) potential present rationalists; that is, someone can be a pretty good rationalist in most contexts while remaining a theist. This is precisely because the internal forces discouraging them from changing can be so strong.