ChristianKl comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 December 2012 05:16:10PM *  1 point [-]

The post is about whether the label theist is appropriate. This question is about whether you believe God exists. Those two questions aren't the same.

6.69% of the people on lesswrong who think that they are "Atheist and not spiritual" believe that the chance that God exists is higher than 50%.

atheistNS <- subset(survey, survey$ReligiousViews=="Atheist and not spiritual")

(length(subset(atheistNS, as.numeric(atheistNS$PGod)>50)$PGod)/length(atheistNS$PGod))

Comment author: Desrtopa 02 December 2012 06:49:11PM 2 points [-]

If you give people a definition of "god" which technically includes things outside the usual conception of god, they're probably going to continue operating by the standard definitions of the term. Even if I believed we were living in a simulation, I wouldn't believe in "god," because it would be laden with so many misleading associations inapplicable to what I actually believed.