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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • It’s just looking for a God or an afterlife without turning to religion.

    I think that’s a bingo, the sentence saying “in historical context this is essentially like religions and afterlife” I sneered at is an inadvertent slip on the author’s side. He seems entirely oblivious that his position is “Rapture, but for nerds, and it’s totally real this time because we did rationalism and Bayes on it.” Or he’s totally conscious that it’s his position but is actually convinced by that flimsy rationalisation, which sounds honestly worse.