Jiro comments on Is Spirituality Irrational? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 02 March 2016 03:45:55PM 0 points [-]

100%? Really? Not just "close to 100%, so let's round it up" but actual complete certainty?

Most people, by "100% certainty", mean "certain enough that for all practical purposes it can be treated as 100%". Not treating the statement as meaning that is just Internet literalness of the type that makes people say everyone on the Internet has Aspergers.

Comment author: Lumifer 02 March 2016 04:29:02PM *  1 point [-]

Most people, by "100% certainty", mean "certain enough that for all practical purposes it can be treated as 100%".

Not in the context of discussions of omniscience and whether pachinko machines have free will :-/

that makes people say everyone on the Internet has Aspergers.

People who say this should go back to their TVs and Bud Lights and not try to overexert themselves with complicated things like that system of intertubes.

Comment author: gjm 02 March 2016 04:29:09PM 0 points [-]

I am aware of that, thanks.

However, in this particular discussion the distinction between certainty and something-closely-resembling-certainty is actually important, for reasons I mentioned earlier.