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31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2007 06:44PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 27 July 2016 05:30:18AM 3 points [-]

Khepri Prime, if the sequel to "Worm" goes the way I hope. More seriously, I don't believe any of that, and physics sadly appears to make some of it impossible even in the far future. Most of us would balk at that first word, "perfect," citing logical impossibility results and their relation to idealized induction. So your question makes you seem - let us say disconnected from the discussion. Would you happen to be assuming we reject theism because we see it as low status, and not because there aren't any gods?

Comment author: entirelyuseless 27 July 2016 02:56:19PM -2 points [-]

"Would you happen to be assuming we reject theism..."

Some LWers reject theism because they see it as low status, some for better reasons, and some do not reject it.

I do have an opinion on your personal motivations as opposed to those of other LWers, but it would be obviously unproductive to give it. So it is also an unproductive question.