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Comment author: MathieuRoy 26 April 2014 02:01:38PM *  1 point [-]

I improved the structure of the questions:

GOD

How confident are you that God exists?

Does an evidence for [---] (would be) an evidence against God? (How would evidence for [---] affect your confidence that God exists) How confident are you that [---] is true? 1. the many-worlds interpretation 2. aliens existence 3. evolution of humans from non-living matter 4. bad things happening

GOING TO PARADISE

How confident are you that you will go to paradise? How scare are you to go to Hell?

How confident are you that [---] have souls (and/or would go to paradise or hell)? 1. advanced artificial intelligence of some sort 2. extremely severely mentally handicapped humans 3. a crionised human

For what minimum X are you at least 90% sure that someone will go to paradise if... 1. someone, who is "otherwise" a very good person, is X% confident that God exists, 2. someone that is (1-X)% chimp and X% human

If it we live in a multiverse, how confident are you that all "souls" from all universes go to (the same) paradise/hell? (if the same, it means you would encounter other versions of yourselves).

What set of memories do you think we bring with us in paradise (the ones we have before we die? all the ones we made in our life? etc.)

BEING IN PARADISE

How intelligent do you think intelligent humans and extremely severely mentally handicapped humans become in paradise?

How confident are you that there are fermions and bosons in paradise/hell? (if low: does that mean there is not concept of: temperature, light, sound, pressure? can time be measured?)

How confident are you that we cannot feel pain in paradise?

After 3^^^3 years in paradise, how much do you think we can remember?

How confident are you that one can commit suicide in paradise if one wants to?

If you could live for any amount of time in paradise, how would you want to live?

ADVANTAGES

What are the advantages to believe in God (beside going to paradise)? What are the disadvantages?

In the "counter-factual" world were God doesn't exist, would you want to believe in it?

ON EARTH

If you could live for any amount of time, how long would you want to live on Earth? (If more than 1 day, you could ask them why wouldn't you rather be in paradise?)

What do you consider as "playing God"? In what case do you think it is good to play God? How well do you think we can (possibly/physically) play God?

How confident are you that we are in a simulation?

How sad are you when someone near you dies? Why?

What would be different in the world (on Earth) if there was no God?