Personality Basins

One of the more depressing things of the AI boom is watching engineers and “atheists” get hoodwinked by mystic gibberish like this blog. There is nothing here but astrology: even Myers-Briggs is more scientific.

I think 30% of atheists bothered to think carefully about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and recognized Pastafarianism as a funny commentary on epistemic uncertainty. The remaining 70% said “heh, stoopid Christians believe in a spaghetti monster!” and took it as confirmation of their tribe’s superiority.

Personally I've always found, ironically, some of my most ardent atheist friends to essentially treat the topic with a level of intensity you might expect from a religious evangelist. Often there's also a level of religious fervor they carry over to politics as well.

I don't really care what other peoples religion/non-religion is anymore than what type of underwear they prefer, and yet...

i agree with your sentiment, but it bears pointing out that no one brandishes their underwear in people's faces screaming that they must wear the same ones, or use the political system to privilege people of the same underwear and punish others etc etc

fwiw me personally i'm all in on uniqlo airism, there is no better underwear and if i could force everyone to wear them i would (for their own good, of course)