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What sort of specification for Thor are you thinking of that could possibly be simpler than Maxwell's equations? A description of macroscopic electrical phenomena is more complex, as is "a being that wants to simulate Maxwell's equations."
If you're thinking of comparing all "god-like" hypotheses to Maxwell's equations, sure. But that comparison is a bit false - you should really be comparing all "god-like" hypotheses to all "natural law-like" hypotheses, in which case I confidently predict that the "natural law-like" hypotheses will win handily.
Yeah, I agree. The shortest god-programs are probably longer than the shortest physics-programs, just not "enormously" longer.
Probably enormously longer if you want it to produce a god that would cause the world to act in a way as if basic EM held.
ie, you don't just need a mind, you need to specify the sort of mind that would want to cause the world to be in a specific way...