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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2013 04:21:43PM 0 points [-]

I was calling that atheism.

In that sense, then, I'm an atheist.

My test was whether my gods-related beliefs would get me flamed on r/atheism. I don't think my beliefs would pass the ideological turing test for atheism.

I used to think the god hypothesis was not just wrong, but incoherent. How could there be a being above and outside physics? How could god break the laws of physics? Of course now I take the simulation argument much more seriously, and even superintelligences within the universe can probably do pretty neat things.

I still think non-reductionism is incoherent; "a level above ours" makes sense, "supernatural" does not.

This isn't really a major update, though. I'm just not going to refer to myself as an atheist any more, because my beliefs permit a lot more.