How does your cathedral background image help quickly communicate the ideas of your post?
On the main page it seems unmotivated—vague connections to God and architecture—but if you click "About" you see more of the photo. The photo was selected because it implies God but its emphasis is architecture, and the highly organized structure of the architecture is supposed to evoke formalism and technology, thus linking God to computationalism. I couldn't think of anything better, and honestly I quite like the photo. Any suggestions?
And yes, if you're willing to accept the simulation solution, then the planetarium hypothesis just isn't as good an explanation. The planetarium hypothesis is mostly for people who are skeptical of simulationism, or people who want to have a backup hypothesis in case simulationism doesn't work, like myself. I generally prefer something like simulationism, but the planetarium hypothesis is my second favored hypothesis.
ETA: I've changed the typeface to Times New Roman, which should make the italics easily readable. Thanks for the feedback, I wasn't sure if the the olde font was appropriate or not.
To me the full background picture is visually distracting. I find it aesthetically jarring/unpleasing, and probably subconsciously associate that visual style with hastily constructed blogs, or at least blogs outside of my typical reading preference. I prefer the background image to be constrained to just the top of the blog, in the typical fashion of blogs like LW. If you really like the photo, have a link to it or embed it in the article somewhere.
...The planetarium hypothesis is mostly for people who are skeptical of simulationism, or people who want
Here.
Long story short, it's an attempt to justify the planetarium hypothesis as a solution to the Fermi paradox. The first half is a discussion of how it and things like it are relevant to the intended purview of the blog, and the second half is the meat of the post. You'll probably want to just eat the meat, which I think is relevant to the interests of many LessWrong folk.
The blog is Computational Theology. It's new. I'll be the primary poster, but others are sought. I'll likely introduce the blog and more completely describe it in its own discussion post when more posts are up, hopefully including a few from people besides me, and when the archive will give a more informative indication of what to expect from the blog. Despite theism's suspect reputation here at LessWrong I suspect many of the future posts will be of interest to this audience anyway, especially for those of you who take interest in discussion of the singularity. The blog will even occasionally touch on rationality proper. So you might want to store the fact of the blog's existence somewhere deep in the back of your head. A link to the blog's main page can be found on my LessWrong user page if you forget the url.
I'd appreciate it if comments about the substance of the post were made on the blog post itself, but if you want to discuss the content here on LessWrong then that's okay too. Any meta-level comments about presentation, typos, or the post's relevance to LessWrong, should probably be put as comments on this discussion post. Thanks all!