michael_vassar3 comments on Use the Try Harder, Luke - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2008 10:52AM

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 03 October 2008 05:22:18AM 6 points [-]

Eliezer: You should believe in Midichlorians. As far as I can tell, they manifest Lucas' disturbing lack of faith. My guess is that when he made the original series he was a fairly serious Buddhist, and the Jedi are sort-of an advertisement for Buddhism. By the time the prequels were made he had abandoned Buddhism, so he decided to make the force materialistic and Jedi wisdom almost reliably wrong.