Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Magical Categories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2008 04:32:00PM 2 points [-]

I don't consider such as Gods, as they are not supernatural and not ontologically distinct from creatures; they are simply powerful aliens or Matrix Lords. So I'll phrase it more precisely. Lots of humans talk about Jehovah. Does that make Jehovah a natural category? Or is only "human talk about Jehovah" a natural category? Do you ponder what Jehovah would do, or only what humans might think Jehovah would do?