Jiro comments on Rationality Quotes March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 29 March 2014 04:46:50PM -1 points [-]

Neither the demon nor Lewis is saying words which literally read like that, but words have implications beyond the literal.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 March 2014 11:51:01AM 0 points [-]

Ehhh. The consistency of the pronoun usage is so strong that I would expect him to have generalized somewhere if he (either one) meant it.

The class he's a part of is 'philosophically weak borderline Christians', not 'Materialists'. After all, they guy isn't a materialist. And if you're a philosophically weak borderline Christian, the easiest route to materialism is indeed how useful it is, not a philosophical argument, because these folks don't give a whit about philosophy.