Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 16 May 2013 09:10:44AM 0 points [-]

An "omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and omnibenevolent creator" sounds pretty simple. But if you actually break down each component into what it would actually have to be computationally it would be incredibly complex.

I agree that the "omnibenevolent" part would be incredibly complex (FAI-complete).

But "omnipotent", "omnipresent" and "omniscient" seem much easier. For example, it could be a computer which simulates this world -- it has all the data, all the data are on its hard disk, and it could change any of these data.

Comment author: Jack 16 May 2013 06:19:21PM 1 point [-]

I actually think this illustrates my point quite nicely: the lower limit for the complexity of God (the God you describe) is by definition slightly more complicated than the world itself (the universe is included in your description!).