If you give people a definition of “god” which technically includes things outside the usual conception of god, they’re probably going to continue operating by the standard definitions of the term. Even if I believed we were living in a simulation, I wouldn’t believe in “god,” because it would be laden with so many misleading associations inapplicable to what I actually believed.
The post is about whether the label theist is appropriate. This question is about whether you believe God exists. Those two questions aren’t the same.
6.69% of the people on lesswrong who think that they are “Atheist and not spiritual” believe that the chance that God exists is higher than 50%.
atheistNS ← subset(survey, survey$ReligiousViews==”Atheist and not spiritual”)
(length(subset(atheistNS, as.numeric(atheistNS$PGod)>50)$PGod)/length(atheistNS$PGod))
If you give people a definition of “god” which technically includes things outside the usual conception of god, they’re probably going to continue operating by the standard definitions of the term. Even if I believed we were living in a simulation, I wouldn’t believe in “god,” because it would be laden with so many misleading associations inapplicable to what I actually believed.