ShannonFriedman comments on The Puzzle of Faith and Belief - LessWrong

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Comment author: ShannonFriedman 29 September 2014 06:08:46PM 0 points [-]

Of course. For the statistics I used all clients and did not cherry pick, but you only have my word for that. And of course there is selection bias for who gives me a testimonial.

That said, those testimonials and statistics are the best that I have to make my point.

If you want me to provide you a perfect, infallible argument to persuade you to change your life, you are going to be waiting a very long time, because I am neither interested nor possessing the time and energy to do it.

If you want evidence that has signal, then that is what I have given you. You can ignore it and/or pick it apart, and get nothing from it, as you seem to have chosen to do.

Someone else might get quite a lot of value from it, if they use the strategy of looking at signal rather than assuming that they are right until proven wrong.

Comment author: Lumifer 29 September 2014 06:13:03PM 2 points [-]

If you want me to provide you a perfect, infallible argument to persuade you to change your life

Oh, dear. No, I certainly do not want that.

I mostly want a coherent description of the point, if there is a point other than "come to me and I'll fix you".