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Comment author: FiftyTwo 24 September 2013 12:46:27PM 8 points [-]

god has to be an ontologically basic entity

Also, the general definition of God includes omniscience and omnipotence, but a simulator-god may not be either, e.g. due to limited computing resources they couldn't simulate an arbitrarily large number of unique humans.