Leah Libresco is moving forward with her proposed religious Turing Test – and she’d appreciate your comments on her draft. Stay tuned for the result.
Leah Libresco is moving forward with her proposed religious Turing Test – and she’d appreciate your comments on her draft. Stay tuned for the result.
Jul 8 2011
Every few years, I have this argument with a new round of commenters. The ratio of stock prices to earnings is P/E. The ratio of earnings to GDP is E/Y. The ratio of stock prices to GDP is P/Y, which equals P/E times E/Y. (Note that the basic math here uses stocks that turn all of their earnings into capital gains,...
Jul 8 2011
Robin Hanson writes, It seems an especially bad idea for people to feel moral, without actually acting moral. He proceeds to talk about movies that allow us to feel moral by rooting for the good guy. But I was expecting him to take it in a different direction. Namely, theater. More specifically, political theater...
Jul 7 2011
Leah Libresco is moving forward with her proposed religious Turing Test - and she'd appreciate your comments on her draft. Stay tuned for the result.
READER COMMENTS
PrometheeFeu
Jul 8 2011 at 11:13am
OK Bryan, if you do the ideological version of this (or economics or whatever) here is a lesson to be learned: You need much fewer participants than 15. I’m trying to read all of these and I can’t keep the various participants straight in my mind, there are just too many of them. By the time I’m done reading the 10th one, the 1st is long forgotten. I would say take no more than 4 including the “pretender”.
BZ
Jul 8 2011 at 12:45pm
I can’t get over how so many of the atheists point to a “lack of reason” or “lack of evidence” to support their disbelief. Logic would suggest that doubt, not disbelief would be the proper course in that case.
Which brings me to my question: Have the testers gone and defined “atheist” to mean the same as “agnostic”? If not, can someone explain why the dictionaries (and thus, English speakers) are wrong in distinguishing those two terms in the way they do?
Jim Object
Jul 8 2011 at 1:16pm
Action stations. Set condition one throughout the blog. Launch the alert vipers.
Inbound Murphy.
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