pnrjulius comments on Semantic Stopsigns - Less Wrong
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I wonder if a religious bulletin board linked to this page or something? Clearly a lot of commenters here who haven't read anything else on Overcoming Bias.
Passing Through, Sam Harris discusses this in The End of Faith - even when beliefs are tribal, they can still act as beliefs and control behavior. E.g. suicide bombers.
Though then they do have to have propositional content, so maybe we should say that they are stopsigns---but not merely stopsigns?