(Even if god were somehow real, here or in some other corner of the multiverse, we should still act as if we’re in a universe where things are determined purely by simple physical laws, and work to make things better under those conditions.)
How is that addressing Hotz’s claim? Eliezer’s post doesn’t address any worlds with a God that is outside of the scope of our Game of Life, and it doesn’t address how well the initial conditions and rules were chosen. The only counter I see in that post is that terrible things have happened in the past, which provide a lower bound for how bad things can get in the future. But Hotz didn’t claim that things won’t go bad, just that it won’t be boring.
Not sure if this is a serious claim by Hotz or the tweeter, but if so, Eliezer addressed it 15 years ago: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god
(Even if god were somehow real, here or in some other corner of the multiverse, we should still act as if we’re in a universe where things are determined purely by simple physical laws, and work to make things better under those conditions.)
How is that addressing Hotz’s claim? Eliezer’s post doesn’t address any worlds with a God that is outside of the scope of our Game of Life, and it doesn’t address how well the initial conditions and rules were chosen. The only counter I see in that post is that terrible things have happened in the past, which provide a lower bound for how bad things can get in the future. But Hotz didn’t claim that things won’t go bad, just that it won’t be boring.