Will_Newsome comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 June 2012 10:31:30PM *  -1 points [-]

"Probability of Christianity" is way too vague, so I can't answer that. I'm 50% confident in my philosophical (meta-ethical, decision theoretic, cosmological) theism, 92.5% confident in my phenomenal-belief-in-decisions-relevant-transhumanly-intelligent-entities. My confidence in atheism is some weird mixture of the inverse of those two because those two variants of theism strike me as pretty disjunctive, and either would falsify atheism. These are impression-belief mixtures: not entirely Aumann-adjusted, but a little. My impressions are more confident of theism, but my betting odds are less confident.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 June 2012 10:56:33PM 1 point [-]

Retracted the above because I don't really like Bayes for this sort of thing. If we had better decision theory and game theory then I would have the tools to answer.