Belief, Faith, and Hope with Liz Jackson
Brain in a Vat
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The Negative Stakes of Committing to God
Theory of decision theory says you should go for the religion that you personally take to be most likely to be true. But it's a very subjective kind of rationality, and so inevitably, it's not going to end up perfect. There's going to be cases where you do what decision theoretically rational, but actually in reality, if you had known the truth, that isn't the best thing to do.
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