pnrjulius comments on Semantic Stopsigns - Less Wrong

53 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2007 07:29PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 November 2007 07:55:48PM 5 points [-]

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.

Comment author: pnrjulius 19 May 2012 05:01:24AM 0 points [-]

Though then they do have to have propositional content, so maybe we should say that they are stopsigns---but not merely stopsigns?