TGGP4 comments on Crisis of Faith - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2008 10:08PM

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Comment author: TGGP4 11 October 2008 11:51:21PM 1 point [-]

If a belief is true you will be better off believing it, and if it is false you will be better off rejecting it. I think evolution facilitated self-delusion precisely because that is not the case.

I was a Fred Phelps style ultra-Calvinist and my transition involved scarcely any effort.