<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Ben,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:11 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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atheists are not convictions. They are evidence-based opinions.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not for those of us in the in the "<a href="https://canonizer.com/topic/2-Atheist-Hope/5">hope based atheist opinion</a>" camp. As I indicated on the other related thread that spawned all this repetitive discussion, Mormon Transhumanist (non atheists) have their "<a href="https://new-god-argument.com/">New God Argument</a>" which is basically the same argument that we are in a simulation.</div><div><br></div><div>This argument is devastating to my hope that Gods don't have to hide. It forces me to accept that there is a good chance that we are in a simulation (and that there is a creator of that simulation, hiding from us). But, I can also rationally point out that there is a small possibility that we may be the first, or something like that. So, for me, this evidence based most likely possibility that we are in a simulation is overridden by my faith and hope that we are not.</div><div><br></div><div>Brent Allsop</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>