This would be some kind of “awesomeness heuristic/bias” where you believe something to be worth considering because it’s awesome in some way and not because there are reasons for expecting it to be true. Such things are worth bringing to attention as fiction, but not as hypotheses about the world.
I agree that the views share a similar non-rational attraction that is likely to appeal to the Less Wrong crowd regardless of what degree of evidence supports the view. But I don’t think the actual degrees of evidence are similar.
Most things that sound like updated Lovecraft are probably only being paid attention to because people have fun imagining ancient space gods.
This would be some kind of “awesomeness heuristic/bias” where you believe something to be worth considering because it’s awesome in some way and not because there are reasons for expecting it to be true. Such things are worth bringing to attention as fiction, but not as hypotheses about the world.
Yes, that was the point I was making.
Do you feel similarly, about people who think that Earth life has a chance of conquering the universe?
I agree that the views share a similar non-rational attraction that is likely to appeal to the Less Wrong crowd regardless of what degree of evidence supports the view. But I don’t think the actual degrees of evidence are similar.