Overall my assessment is that this is a good pro-atheist pep talk, a neat catalogue of applause lights but it has very little if any rationalist value.
It may be a good pep talk for her co-ideologists, but from the outside it looks like straight-out ideological warfare, which of course it actually is. Unsurprisingly, like nearly all such material, its reasoning is full of holes big enough to drive a truck through. (The stuff you pointed out is only the tip of the iceberg.)
If anything, this should be evident from the fact that she makes a number of highly controversial ideological statements about current issues -- which I'm sure many people here would in fact dispute or at least consider as lacking in evidence -- as plain and common-sense truth, to an enthusiastic response by the audience.
I think it's indicative of some deep biases that this stuff, unlike ideological rants in general, can be posted on LW with general approval.
I should have made it more clear that I was using "pro-atheist" in the sense of the organized atheist movement. And yes obviously that movement is ideological. Worse for quality of thinking, it is political, in the sense that it has some clearly defined political allies (and also enemies).
I think it's indicative of some deep biases that this stuff, unlike ideological rants in general, can be posted on LW with general approval
Remember it wasn't posted separately, just as a batch of stuff from Skepticon. I doubt that many people from LW have se...
The talks from Skepticon IV are being posted to YouTube.
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