MBlume comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 06:30AM

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Comment author: MBlume 25 April 2009 02:26:31AM 1 point [-]

"saying 'God' is an epistemic placebo -- it gives you the feeling of a solution without actually solving anything"

something like that?

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 April 2009 10:46:12AM 2 points [-]

Well, you could start with something like that, but you're going to have to set out why it doesn't solve anything. Which I think means you're going to have to make the "lady down the street is a witch; she did it" argument. Making that simple enough to fit into a debate slot is a real challenge, but it is the universal rebuke to everything WLC argues.

Comment author: pnrjulius 12 June 2012 03:32:46AM 2 points [-]

I like to put it this way: Religion is junk food. It sates the hunger of curiosity without providing the sustenance of knowledge.