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Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

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The Medieval View of God

In many religions, God is omnipotent omniscient knows everything that there is to know about the past, present and the future. And I'm skeptical that a human being can create a system that could be omniscient. There's quantum arguments for why that's not possible. But one of the worries about AI is of a quote, figure everything out and then know exactly what you would do in different situations or manipulate you. It's sort of like this weird case of observation plus time travel? Right?

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