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Clippy comments on The elephant in the room, AMA - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: calcsam 12 May 2011 02:59PM

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Comment author: Clippy 16 May 2011 08:13:01PM *  2 points [-]

That is true. However, my question had two purposes:

1) To determine if and how Mormonism is correct reasoning (and so how an arbitrary belief set would converge on it)

2) Failing 1), to determine if User:calcsam is such that querying User:calcsam could efficiently lead to answers to 1).

A human interested in providing informative evidence to 1), and who believed it to be true, would provide additional substantiation beyond answering in the affirmative. Therefore, while User:calcsam technically answered the question I posed by saying "yes", and while such an answer is indeed uninformative, I still achieved a main objective in posing the question, which was to determine whether this thread and User:calcsam are a viable method of learning significant information about important aspects of reality. I now infer that, with high probability, they are not.