Religion

I do love those articles about Fernando Henrique Cardoso losing the election for admiting to be an atheist (or more precisely for not being able to readily admit to adore bog), and how it is a crime to be an atheist. Not that i am, exactly, one. I would prefer the label of anantropomorphist — i have a strong bias against any depiction of a god that possesses human characteristic. But anyway, i like to see anyone saying that a prejudice against atheism is as bad as race or gender prejudice. I just find it amusing.

un-naive truth

[It might seem completely opportunistic, but this is a repost of yesterday's post. I wrote it hurriedly as i was about to go out, and today by morning, as i woke up, i realized the ordering of my arguments could be lots improved. The original form might probably be gotten from feed-readers or some of those "web-memory" sites. Anyway, this is a commentary on "A Simple Truth", a text by a certain Eliezer Yudkowsky from Overcoming Bias blog.]

To oversimplify, my argument is somewhat like this — Eliezer tells this tale:

Someone says to you: “My miracle snake oil can rid you of lung cancer in just three weeks.” You reply: “Didn’t a clinical study show this claim to be untrue?” The one returns: “This notion of ‘truth’ is quite naive; what do you mean by ‘true’?”

And i say: i can’t really conceive anyone that, spoken like this, would answer anything except: “My notion of ‘truth’ might be naive but you are still not getting my money for your whatever-it-is-oil!”

Fnord! or die conspiration freaks die!

Since i am today beggining Shea and Wilson’s Illuminatus! Trilogy, it is just fitting that i share one little fact about the conspirations that i found out. It is this: they are impossible.

translate sloth

Small differences, metric system, royale with cheese, right? So let me share a small thing that’s been nagging me forever.

In portuguese the word for laziness is a noun, so that you can have laziness and wonder about it’s size. And you can sort of say the same things in english, but somehow the feeling’s just not the same.