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

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 15 June 2012 02:33:04AM 3 points [-]

What's the probability that you're in a simulation? What's the probability that one of the religions in the simulation is a message from the simulator? And is the product of those probabilities really as small as 10^-50?

Comment author: Thomas 15 June 2012 05:18:54AM 1 point [-]

The simulation implies the Bible God as strongly as it implies the Little Red Riding Hood. How probable is that the naughty wolf is our simulator?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 June 2012 05:33:44AM 0 points [-]

The big bad wolf, as described in the story, doesn't have the ability to create a stimulation (or do any programing whatsoever), whereas God, as described in the bible, does.

Comment author: Thomas 15 June 2012 05:45:46AM 2 points [-]

Oh no. The story deliberately hides the Wolf's powers. THAT is not very unlikely compared to the rest, is it?