Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on The elephant in the room, AMA

Eliezer Yudkowsky 14 May 2011 4:37 UTC
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Sixthed. Actually I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who wouldn’t so promise.

The only caveat is that I’d have to be separately convinced of the factual and ethical sides, i.e., showing evidence to me that the Mormon God exists is not the same as justifying that the Mormon God’s policies are good.
- Eugine_Nier 14 May 2011 4:46 UTC
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  I try to avoid making promises I wouldn’t trust myself to keep from an outside view.
- Plasmon 30 May 2011 18:09 UTC
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  Actually I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who wouldn’t so promise.
  
  PZ Myers writes:
  
  There is no valid god hypothesis, so there can be no god evidence, so let’s stop pretending the believers have a shot at persuading us.
  
  He basically argues that the god(s) are always vague and undefined, such that the notion of “ironclad evidence for a religion” does not make sense.