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Oscar_Cunningham comments on [Link] Scott Adam's "God's Debris" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 15 September 2012 12:08:03AM *  1 point [-]

I read that a long while ago and thought it was very profound.

I read it recently and was appalled at my former self for falling for such gibberish.

That scream of horror and embarrassment is the sound that rationalists make when they level up. -Eliezer Yudkowsky

The best I can say of God's Debris is that Adams is at least asking the right questions. Unfortunately the book is too ready to offer its own completely bogus, hypothesis-privileging answers.

EDIT: On rereading my comment I feel that I haven't emphasised the awfulness of God's Debris enough. It's probably actively harmful to read it.