byrnema comments on Belief in Belief - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 July 2007 05:49PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 29 April 2010 04:32:27PM 0 points [-]

The question would have an answer for some actual believer in belief - not for a hypothetical character in a thought exercise.

Comment author: byrnema 29 April 2010 04:56:30PM 2 points [-]

Keeping in mind that the thought exercise has limited isomorphism to belief in God. No one believes in an invisible dragon in their garage ... because there isn't any reason to think there is a dragon there. Theists have reasons to believe in God, atheists just don't agree with those reasons.