If you can't get people to take something seriously, sometimes it's because it's plainly wrong. The concept of "addicted to their beliefs" relieves you of having to listen to them.
You are arguing against a strawman. Saying someone acts like an addict is not the same thing as saying that he is an addict. It's especially not an explanation.
Not good qualifications for talking about quantum physics
She has probably more formal qualifications than Eliezer and is more skeptic about her knowledge about quantum physics than Eliezer.
It's especially not an explanation.
That is the point I was intending. The author of that book seems to use "addiction" as an explanation. "Why do these people not pay me any attention?" he asks himself. "I know, it's because they're addicted to their beliefs!"
She has probably more formal qualifications than Eliezer and is more skeptic about her knowledge about quantum physics than Eliezer.
Does she have knowledge to be sceptical about? I'm not going to slog through two hours of video, even if it were in English. Her wor...
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