IlyaShpitser comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 12 January 2014 07:12:20AM 9 points [-]

Will have you ever had an encounter with the divine?

Comment author: Leonhart 13 January 2014 10:38:11PM 4 points [-]

I upvoted you because I misread it as "Will you ever had" and thought you were making a joke about eternity, but now I suspect you just forgot the comma after "Will".

Keep the upvote, though, I want to know too.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 January 2014 01:09:55AM 1 point [-]

Fo sho.

Comment author: bbleeker 13 January 2014 07:17:07PM -1 points [-]

What happened?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 January 2014 01:50:52AM 1 point [-]

See here for my explanation of why I'd rather not answer that.

Comment author: gjm 15 January 2014 02:52:03AM 0 points [-]

I looked there and didn't see any explanation of why you'd rather not answer that. What did I miss?

Comment author: bbleeker 16 January 2014 09:48:25AM -1 points [-]

I imagine it's because

the gods apparently do not want there to be common knowledge of their existence

Right?

Comment author: gjm 16 January 2014 11:34:23AM 0 points [-]

Might be. But I don't see how that would make it wrong for Will to describe his experiences, without also making it wrong for him to say he's had them and is very convinced by them.

I mean, it could. The gods would need to think that the level of evidence present in the world without any comment from Will is too low, and the level of evidence present with a description of Will's experiences is too high. It would be quite a coincidence, wouldn't it?, for the optimum level of evidence to fit into so narrow a region?

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