
God (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Minds Almost Meeting
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The Importance of Gods in the Universe
If for any question we have now There'll be some part of the future who will know the answer Then we might set up interesting social processes by which we connect Our processes of inquiry now to these distant future settlements of the question. That's at least a way we can use those gods. We could they can settle bets for example We could bet on The answers to questions and eventually wait for them to settle our bets. If we don't think they will have an answer to all possible questions Then we ask then when now we start to ask well, which of the many questions we have Do we expect them to eventually have available an answer to?
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