TheOtherDave comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 April 2013 05:13:23PM 4 points [-]

I agree that nobody denies climate exists, but I think that's irrelevant to the question at hand.

To clarify that a bit... Aaronson asserted a relationship between "climate skeptics" and "the academic climatology community" with respect to some concept X which climate skeptics deny exists. We could get into a whole discussion about what exactly X is (it certainly isn't climate), but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as "the thing climate skeptics don't believe in."

Eugine_Nier asserted a relationship between "atheists" and "the theology community" with respect to some concept Y which atheists deny exists. We could similarly get into a whole discussion about what exactly Y is, but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as "the thing atheists don't believe in."

If the theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, then the analogy holds.

I just don't believe that the theology community is in that relationship to Y.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 April 2013 07:02:41PM *  2 points [-]

I just don't believe that the theology community is in that relationship to Y.

I believe Eugine_Nier is suggesting not that theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, but the reverse.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 April 2013 09:50:33PM 0 points [-]

(nods) Yup. It's the opposite of what he said, but he could easily have been speaking ironically.