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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 12 March 2014 11:05:10PM *  0 points [-]

Has someone asked them why? Perhaps we should be theists.

Yes, they say something like this, this, or this. Whether that is their True Reason for Believing...well, I don't think so in most cases, but that is just my intuition.

BTW, I'm also a theist (some might say on a technicality) for the fairly boring and straightforward reason that I affirm Bostrom's trilemma and deny its first two disjuncts along with accepting having created our universe as a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for godhood.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 March 2014 11:09:10AM *  2 points [-]

The trilemma should be a tetralemma: you also need to deny that consciousness, qualia and all, is unsimulable.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 March 2014 07:05:14AM 0 points [-]

BTW, I'm also a theist (some might say on a technicality) for the fairly boring and straightforward reason that I affirm Bostrom's trilemma and deny its first two disjuncts along with accepting having created our universe as a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for godhood.

So you believe there exists a Matrix Lord? Basically, computational Deism?