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Ben_Welchner comments on You only need faith in two things - Less Wrong
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Can someone please explain this?
I understand many religious people claim to just 'have faith' in Christ, with absolute certainty. I think the standard argument would run "well, you say I shouldn't have faith in Christ, but you have faith in 'science' / 'non-neglible probability on induction and some single well ordered large ordinal' so you can't argue against faith".
What is Eliezer saying here?
Addendum: By which I mean, can someone give a clear explanation of why they are not the same?
You pretty much got it. Eliezer's predicting that response and saying, no, they're really not the same thing. (Tu quoque)
EDIT: Never mind, I thought it was a literal question.
I see. Could you articulate how exactly they're not the same thing please?
For instance: nowhere above did EY claim anything had probability one.