I am no AI geek so please don’t downvote the crap out of me if what I say here is inaccurate. I’ve tried to work this out to the best of my knowledge, as someone who runs computer simulations routinely.
So, about those, let’s just change them to be actually workable. Suppose we’re taking the programmer controls a simulation analogy. If they are good enough at coding, they are “omnipotent” in a practical sense, in that they can manipulate reality at will.… but within limits. Of what they can fhink of, of what can be written in the programme....
If they program the entire simulation to be calculated from beginning to end given an original set of parameters, they are “outside time and space” in that they are outside the coordinates and variables internal to the simulation. They are thus “eternal” and “omnipresent”. They remain “omnipotent” if, once the simulation is done, they can jump at any point in time and arbitrarily change the variables with no regard for the simulation’s internal causality rules. The simulation just continues from there. They can even arbitrarily impose special rules for finite “times” and “spaces”.
The simulation also remains “causeless” from within its own rules: it just “started” at some point, and so did time, and there is not “before the beginning” that makes sense from within the simulation. There is also no way for a user to explain to the elements living in a simulation what their world is exactly like because of the complete lack of compatible reference: at best there will be approximate metaphors and double illusion of transparency.
As for Benevolence, suppose they optimize the simulation (including the punctual interventions and the “special rules” spacetime periods) according to an algorythm that is not understandable to the “sims”, because it’s based on variables that they themselves do not know, yet it is calculated for them to achieve the maximum value of whatever that “Good” thing is.
So, the programmer is “omnipotent”, “omniscient” and “benevolent”, just… not in the “ideal”, paradox-inducing version of those concepts. The user has their limits. But they’re still working at an entirely different level of existence than that which the “sims” inhabit.
Now, let’s take this hypothesis: how in the world does it make sense, in this situation, to take the YHWH approach of sending prophets to a tiny corner of the land and so on and so forth?
I am no AI geek so please don’t downvote the crap out of me if what I say here is inaccurate. I’ve tried to work this out to the best of my knowledge, as someone who runs computer simulations routinely.
So, about those, let’s just change them to be actually workable. Suppose we’re taking the programmer controls a simulation analogy. If they are good enough at coding, they are “omnipotent” in a practical sense, in that they can manipulate reality at will.… but within limits. Of what they can fhink of, of what can be written in the programme....
If they program the entire simulation to be calculated from beginning to end given an original set of parameters, they are “outside time and space” in that they are outside the coordinates and variables internal to the simulation. They are thus “eternal” and “omnipresent”. They remain “omnipotent” if, once the simulation is done, they can jump at any point in time and arbitrarily change the variables with no regard for the simulation’s internal causality rules. The simulation just continues from there. They can even arbitrarily impose special rules for finite “times” and “spaces”.
The simulation also remains “causeless” from within its own rules: it just “started” at some point, and so did time, and there is not “before the beginning” that makes sense from within the simulation. There is also no way for a user to explain to the elements living in a simulation what their world is exactly like because of the complete lack of compatible reference: at best there will be approximate metaphors and double illusion of transparency.
As for Benevolence, suppose they optimize the simulation (including the punctual interventions and the “special rules” spacetime periods) according to an algorythm that is not understandable to the “sims”, because it’s based on variables that they themselves do not know, yet it is calculated for them to achieve the maximum value of whatever that “Good” thing is.
So, the programmer is “omnipotent”, “omniscient” and “benevolent”, just… not in the “ideal”, paradox-inducing version of those concepts. The user has their limits. But they’re still working at an entirely different level of existence than that which the “sims” inhabit.
Now, let’s take this hypothesis: how in the world does it make sense, in this situation, to take the YHWH approach of sending prophets to a tiny corner of the land and so on and so forth?