Jiro comments on Guardians of the Truth - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2007 06:44PM

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Comment author: thrawnca 27 July 2016 01:45:53AM -1 points [-]

If you believe in G-d then you believe in a being that can change reality just by willing it

OK, so by that definition...if you instead believe in a perfect rationalist that has achieved immortality, lived longer than we can meaningfully express, and now operates technology that is sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic, including being involved in the formation of planets, then - what label should you use instead of 'G-d'?

Comment author: Jiro 28 July 2016 03:44:49PM 0 points [-]

I'd probably have to invent a name for it. Or I might use the term "godlike being", implying that the being has some, but not all, characteristics in common with what people think of as God.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 July 2016 08:34:50PM 0 points [-]

There's "demigod" or if you like the Eastern flavour, "bodhisattva".