[ExI] Belief in maths

[darren shawn greer]

> And there is a helpful heuristic to use when considering statements
> which contain references to gods or creators; replace the term in
> question with "the footrest at home which is a pink invisible elephant
> wearing a yellow tutu and having a mass of 100 suns". Thus the
> statement "You can not disprove the existence of some undefined and
> vague creator" becomes "You can not disprove the existence of the
> footrest at home which is a pink invisible elephant wearing a yellow
> tutu and having a mass of 100 suns". Since it is a heuristic it might
> not be applicable in every circumstance however it is often useful in
> demonstrating the level of BS of which much of the talk about gods and
> creators consists. 
 

 

Sure. Why not? It started with Hyercubical Golden Dragons. It could just as easily end with that. The point of that post was my belief that human beings might be better off if we collectively abandon such arguments altogether as irrelevant, unwinnable and ultimately unknowable. Not to mention that they often deteriorate into derision and sarcasm. 



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From: jonkc at bellsouth.net
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:09:06 -0400
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Subject: Re: [ExI] Belief in maths (was mind body dualism).



On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Mike Dougherty wrote:
Of course a fair coin is 50/50.  How did we learn this?

>From it's history. If I knew nothing about the coin except that it just produced 99 heads in a row I would say the probability it is a fair coin is greater than zero but very very small. I certainly wouldn't trust it for anything important.


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