Alsadius comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 06 November 2014 03:17:24AM *  20 points [-]

Did the survey. I'm not terribly interested in karma, but if you feel the need to upvote, then upvote away.

One answer I gave that may confuse - I put "atheist" down under "other" for my religion, because I do believe that a) atheism is properly defined as an active belief in the lack of god(s), b) I hold this belief, c) there can be no actual direct evidence for this belief, and d) being a belief about the nature of god(s)(or lack thereof) is sufficient to make something a religion.

(Oddly, I also put 5% down as my probability of there being a god, but this is mostly because the definition is a superset of the simulation hypothesis, and I don't regard a big computer as being a god in any sense we use the term to mean)

Comment author: Alsadius 06 November 2014 03:32:25AM *  2 points [-]

Also, I didn't have a digit ratio precise enough to put down, but it seems to be almost exactly 1, possibly slightly higher. (I am unambiguously male, which makes me wonder if my methodology is bad)

Comment author: anandjeyahar 10 November 2014 07:57:42AM 0 points [-]

but it seems to be almost exactly 1, possibly slightly higher. (I am unambiguously male, which makes me wonder if my methodology is bad) Well I had a similar problem(tried to measure with tape directly next & parallel to the fingers) and instead drew the outline of my spread out palm on a sheet of paper and got 1.01.