gwern comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: gwern 05 January 2015 05:02:17AM 7 points [-]

Shouldn't evidence for simulations - and apparently the median belief is 10% for simulation - be evidence for Supernatural influences

A simulation is still a naturalistic non-supernatural thing, and it would just mean we see less of the universe than we thought we do. The question was, after all:

What is the probability that there is a god, defined as a supernatural intelligent entity who created the universe?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 05 January 2015 07:22:58AM 0 points [-]

See my answer to hairyfigment. Does that help?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 January 2015 10:11:21PM 2 points [-]

I think you're looking at it backward. You are trying to understand what the implications of a survey response are. This is the explanation.

Your philosophical objection to the logic behind the explanation doesn't make it not the explanation.

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