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The fewer the number of gods…

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/613037891787161600 The fewer the number of gods, the less trained a society in managing ambiguity: Paganism > Christianity > Monotheism >Salafism > Atheism.

RELIGION vs ATHEISM: Religious people are largely atheists…

RELIGION vs ATHEISM: Religious people are largely atheists, depending on the domain & why the discussion is largely flawed. — Some philosophy now. One brilliant contribution by economists is the concept of “cheap talk”, or the difference between “stated preferences” (what you say) and “revealed preferences” (from actions). Actions are louder than words: what people […]

Rupert Read and I wrote a short piece on religion…

Rupert Read and I wrote a short piece on religion as conveyor of intergenerational convex heuristics. Instead of putting technical stuff we just conveyed results from “Silent Risk”. http://econjwatch.org/articles/religion-heuristics-and-intergenerational-risk-management Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management · Econ Journal Watch: Risk… This article does not concern what might be termed ‘the religious side of religion’ (each […]

Atheists are just modern versions of…

Atheists are just modern versions of religious fundamentalists: they both take religion too literally. via Atheists are just modern versions of… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook.

The idea to modify religions by so called “rational” argument has failed…

The idea to modify religions by so called “rational” argument has failed; better try to apply ancient Mediterranean pagan heuristics to make practitioners more tolerant of others through the sharing of holidays. In Lebanon, since the war, people have adopted the ancient Roman practice to celebrate other people’s holidays and sacred values: When the pope […]