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2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Sanity in Society

The Black Belt Bayesian says behind every exciting dramatic failure there is a more important story about a larger and less dramatic failure that made that first failure possible. He goes on to say if every trace of religion thought we're subbing creationism for our example here was magically eliminated from the world tomorrow then however much improved many people's lives would be, they wouldn't even have come close to solving the larger failures of sanity that made religion possible in the first place. The lack of sanity is the difference between what reality and what our brains perceive or not.

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