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>What do you mean by the Calvinism question? I was kind of throwing out a vague idea/similarity without really thinking it through there... More specifically
by aninhumer 10y ago
>What do you mean by the Calvinism question?
I was kind of throwing out a vague idea/similarity without really thinking it through there...
More specifically though, the Calvinist idea that the chosen people are the only ones who will ever be able to understand God. (AIUI)
- jnicholasp 10y agoAh, ok. Yeah, sort of similar: only some "chosen" people might have actual experiences attached to their existence, for better or for worse.
- aninhumer 10y agoPerhaps related is this Slate Star Codex article, which briefly speculates that a god could create a universe where net-negative-utility people are p-zombies: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/
- jnicholasp 10y agoI've read that :) And it appears like a plausible world to me, although of course I have no idea if it's the world we happen to live in. It does seem to get as close to an answer of how a good [entity] could have [created|simulated] a world with apparent evil in it, as anything I know of.