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Manfred comments on Ontologial Reductionism and Invisible Dragons - Less Wrong Discussion

-11 Post author: Balofsky 20 March 2012 02:29AM

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Comment author: Manfred 20 March 2012 06:02:00PM *  6 points [-]

The distinction between G-d and the dragon, I’d argue, is more easily appreciated from an existential standpoint than a probabilistic one.

If it had been vice versa, would you have written the next section from the probabilistic viewpoint instead?

That is to say, are you aware that the quoted sentence is a big red flag for rationalization and feel that it's justified, or are you doing it without being aware?