“I wish I could believe that no one could possibly believe in belief in belief in belief...”
You wish you could believe Eliezer? Is this a dliberate stroke of irony or a subconcious hint at the fact that you do have an empathic understanding of the thought processes behind tailoring your own beliefs?
I think the idea behind this is that he wishes reality played out in such a way that, to a rational observer, it would engender belief. It’s a roundabout way of saying “I wish reality were such that...”
“I wish I could believe that no one could possibly believe in belief in belief in belief...”
You wish you could believe Eliezer? Is this a dliberate stroke of irony or a subconcious hint at the fact that you do have an empathic understanding of the thought processes behind tailoring your own beliefs?
I think the idea behind this is that he wishes reality played out in such a way that, to a rational observer, it would engender belief. It’s a roundabout way of saying “I wish reality were such that...”