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spriteless comments on Agency is bugs and uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 June 2015 05:25:09PM 1 point [-]

As often happens, LW discusses theology without realizing it.

To a superintelligence, we are CPUs without agency.

aka "Do you really have free will if God knows everything you will decide?" X-)

Comment author: spriteless 08 June 2015 06:55:12PM -1 points [-]

I would argue that Theologians have used the wide idea-space of their mythology to cover a lot of questions some of which also applicable outside of their theology.

I mean, it's not as though religion has a monopoly on that idea. It is mentioned in the article how it has applications in any care-taking role.

Now if you can find someone talking about the possibility of a virgin getting pregnant through her ear or nose, that I will grant you is pretty unique to Christianity in specific time periods when social mores say pregnancy is good, vaginas are bad, and virginity is good..