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Santa Claus is not a god... yet
- 082349872349872 3y agoJust like many proponents of a 2-party state are happy to explain their advantages over a 1-party state but strangely incurious about the opportunity cost they incur by not investigating an N>2-party state, the advantage of monotheism over animism is widely held to be a reduction in the number of intentional agents, but reducing the number of intentional agents by one more* is strangely anathema. * I have heard Unitarian Universalism described as a church for those who believe in, at most, one god. Edit: by synecdoche, is Murphy (of the eponymous law) a candidate for divinity? counterintuitive: intuition expects decorrelation between potential and actual going wrong an intentional agent: Murphy does not work if you were planning to take advantage of him strategic information: Murphy knows both what can go wrong and if anyone was planning for it to able to act in the human world: for sure capable of motivating behaviours: the existence of Murphy motivates belt-and-suspenders tactics