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The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many oth
by normac2 5y ago
The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corporations automatically generate long lists of Hebrew characters to find names of God that give various powers.
[1] https://unsongbook.com/ https://unsongbook.com/
- csdvrx 5y ago> In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corporations automatically generate long lists of Hebrew characters to find names of God that give various powers. In this universe, we do the same with numbers generated by ASICS or GPU: it mostly gives the power of money.
- jacquesm 5y agoThere is that sf story about the names of god too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God