[ExI] Basis of Belief

[Emlyn]

On 26/02/2008, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>        Alex said: >>
> ... interested in a copy of Bullshitnetics?
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>        it's all religiculous ! >>
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>        ...   I would hate it if we were to be judged not worthy of survival
> by that AGI based on the  sophomoric contempt and scorn that a few fanatical
> atheists determined to profess their supposed superiority to the world using
> this mailing list as a vehicle.
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>        I thought we had a moderator here?
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> We do.  Ridicule of religion is allowed here.
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> We might just as likely to be judged worthy of survival by that AGI based on
> our sophomoric comtempt of religion.
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> spike

Well, if an AGI decides to terminate atheists, it's either because it
has some dastardly plan based on it's followers having poor reasoning
faculties (so it's an unfriendly AI), or it's figured out that (some)
religion is actually true, clearly a quite murderous one, and it's
likely to be correct, so things were going to end badly anyway.

I wanted to write a longer post, but I think it suffices to state the
mundane truth that there is no god. The burden of proof is not on me
to prove this statement.

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Emlyn

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