“Bananas were created by God for human enjoyment, for why else would they come in such convenient cases?”
″...Am I to hope that, in the hereafter, a rationalist God will reward me for having the intellectual integrity not to believe in Him?”.....
...Right, but if the only reason it works is that you believe it works, then how can it work if you know it only works because you believe it works?”...
...”Richard Dawkins, the biologist, was once asked about a study claiming that the devout live longer on average than atheists. He replied that, even if that were so, he’d rather know the truth about where he came from and die early than live longer under a fantasy.”
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…. “In other words: the stupider, more ignorant, more irrational you can prove you are, the better the chance you have of winning”.
When Douglas Yates wrote that “people who are sensible about love are incapable of it,” he might have added a footnote: “the Darwinian explanation for this fact arises from certain paradoxes of rationality in games played by agents known to each other to have bounded computational capacity.”
Few quotes from the article:
“Bananas were created by God for human enjoyment, for why else would they come in such convenient cases?”
″...Am I to hope that, in the hereafter, a rationalist God will reward me for having the intellectual integrity not to believe in Him?”.....
...Right, but if the only reason it works is that you believe it works, then how can it work if you know it only works because you believe it works?”...
...”Richard Dawkins, the biologist, was once asked about a study claiming that the devout live longer on average than atheists. He replied that, even if that were so, he’d rather know the truth about where he came from and die early than live longer under a fantasy.”
. …. “In other words: the stupider, more ignorant, more irrational you can prove you are, the better the chance you have of winning”.
When Douglas Yates wrote that “people who are sensible about love are incapable of it,” he might have added a footnote: “the Darwinian explanation for this fact arises from certain paradoxes of rationality in games played by agents known to each other to have bounded computational capacity.”