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

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Comment author: Bakkot 14 June 2012 09:36:08PM 6 points [-]

"Lots of people believe it" is evidence for it being true, just weak evidence.

Comment author: pragmatist 15 June 2012 02:38:36AM *  1 point [-]

This is compatible with what Thomas said, as long as his prior for the Christian hypothesis is sufficiently lower than that for the Red Riding Hood hypothesis, and that doesn't seem unreasonable given certain construals of the "Christian hypothesis".