Why? You fail to define what you mean with free will. The first thing that the term brings up is the debate about whether or not free will exist in the first place.
Do you care about not pushing fat men onto trolley tracks?
Making organ-donation on death a default that people have to opt out of?
In Germany there was recently a court decision that printing: “Men and women are equal” on election ballots is an illegal infringement of voters expression of the political will. Is this the kind of nudging something that goes against your principles?
Less Wrong rationalists are growing, and being recognized by the religious community. As militant Atheists.
Militant atheism is a slogan by Richard Dawkins.
I think you are making a mistake when you charge is community with being militant Atheists.
On the mission statement for the center of rationality there isn’t a single word about religion, God, atheism.
Evolution doesn’t appear while “evole” appears once but isn’t the main topic of the sentence in which it appears.
The question of God is not discussed in rational fiction like HPMOR and Lumosity/Radiance.
In some sense Harry father might be an militant atheist but Harry’s father is wrong in HPMOR.
Altruism is very easily perverted into forcing other people because you know what is best for them. It’s not enough by itself. It needs something else attached.
This community add something to altruism. Effective altruism. In contrast to Microlending that creates dependency GiveWell recommends GiveDirectly.
Not because of some argument about the value of free will but because of an argument about effectiveness.
In the last 100 years you didn’t have a war between atheists and theists in Europe. On the other hand you have Irish catholics bombing English protestants.
I don’t think this post is main material.
Why? You fail to define what you mean with free will. The first thing that the term brings up is the debate about whether or not free will exist in the first place.
Do you care about not pushing fat men onto trolley tracks?
Making organ-donation on death a default that people have to opt out of?
In Germany there was recently a court decision that printing: “Men and women are equal” on election ballots is an illegal infringement of voters expression of the political will. Is this the kind of nudging something that goes against your principles?
Militant atheism is a slogan by Richard Dawkins. I think you are making a mistake when you charge is community with being militant Atheists.
On the mission statement for the center of rationality there isn’t a single word about religion, God, atheism. Evolution doesn’t appear while “evole” appears once but isn’t the main topic of the sentence in which it appears.
The question of God is not discussed in rational fiction like HPMOR and Lumosity/Radiance. In some sense Harry father might be an militant atheist but Harry’s father is wrong in HPMOR.
This community add something to altruism. Effective altruism. In contrast to Microlending that creates dependency GiveWell recommends GiveDirectly. Not because of some argument about the value of free will but because of an argument about effectiveness.
In the last 100 years you didn’t have a war between atheists and theists in Europe. On the other hand you have Irish catholics bombing English protestants.