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Emile comments on Religion, happiness, and Bayes - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Emile 04 October 2011 03:37:39PM 10 points [-]

In the balance of evidence, reasoning about "many people believe X, and it makes them happier" (whatever way that points) is a rounding error compared to evidence from archeology or textual analysis. It's not really worth fretting too much about it.