Caledonian2 comments on Building Something Smarter - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2008 05:00PM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 03 November 2008 12:57:31AM 0 points [-]

Was Carl Sagan hawking a religion?

Yes. He was trying to convince people that rationality could substitute itself for mysticism, which they highly value.

Pretty much everyone trying to "sell" an idea dip into religious memes, sooner or later -- as my now-deleted comment makes clear.