gavin leech @gl@schelling.pt
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Joined Dec 2022
'...So the correct answer to the question "What religion do you believe in?" might, in my case, be "none". For... your data analysis, please feel free to code this answer as either "Jewish", "Mixed/other", or blank, depending on what you actually meant by the question'
Taoist
Multi-dimensional pantheism
I really like Catholic aesthetics
'I strongly identify as Jewish and go to synagogue regularly... none of my beliefs about the world are based on my Judaism. (e.g. I am agnostic.)...'
neo-Pyrrhonism
Lesswronger
I am an agent of the divine will and am entirely clueless about what makes up the D.W.
Freedom is the only valid god
Spinozan
Sceptical qabbalist
Agnostic but increasingly leaning towards Protestantism
LOVE
Gods exist but are causally far from humans
I practice Judaism, but don't believe in its theological claims
Culturally Jewish but agnostic…
Not religious Jewish, but traditional
Secular Buddhist
Modern Paganism (witch w/s…
Advaita Vedanta
Messy Thelema
No Religion
I don't believe Buddhism but I draw inspiration
Discordian
All/affiliated to none
Vedantist
Non-denominational christian, basically I identify with the religion of western civilization
Asatru
Gnostic Pantheist
Neo-Advaita
It's complicated.
Church of Friendship
Dudeism
Shinto
Animism
Gnostic
I am curious about whether God exists, though it ultimately has no effect on any of my decisions
Neo American
Free-wheeling syncretist
rave cult recognized by the Man as a 501(c)3 organization
bay area rave cult recognized by the feds
Why use the adjective form for Jews?
Spiritual agnostic
Norse(Asatro)
Pagan (LARP)
Omnitheistic Goddesses
The God of Baruch could be a good option
Umbanda
Lutheran
I'm not a perfect agnostic--I'm what you could call theist-curious
Non-believing Christian
Mushrooms
Spiritual Panpsychist
12 step
Alcoholics Anonymous
Thelemite
Satanist
Simulationist
Traditional Chinese
Christian (Mennonite)
Jedi
Druidic
Conditional dystheist (the Abrahamic god, if he exists, is the enemy)
Osho
Stoic
Zen
Frequently crippled by utter terror in the face of oblivion
Equestrian
Baha'i
Some fun marginal religions (n < 4) in the SSC survey:
Interesting interdisciplinary research group looking for 2023 fellows, e.g. predocs. Rarely extreme of intellectual breadth.
(ecology / evolutionary biology / cogsci / neuroscience / sociology / legal theory / statistical mechanics / linguistics / ... )
Dude, "army" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Force provider", please.
some actually interesting bagpipe music. unnaturally smooth gliss.
Spa days are interesting: socially-sanctioned inaction. Like a comfy meditation retreat for people who would never go on a meditation retreat.
(I guess going to the beach is the democratised version.)
ok ok ok they got me, i love big brother:
"Morality is complicated, AIs try to be simple"
he can't keep getting away with it (writing the best critical work on AI forecasting in the world and putting it up on tumblr and only tumblr)
https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/705192637617127424/gpt-4-prediction-it-wont-be-very-useful
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Joined Dec 2022
