Anonymous asked:
"God is omnipotent" clearly can't mean "God is unrestrained in His actions", I mean just look at Jesus. Why would God go through all that faff with immaculate conceptions and virgin births and whatnot if He didn't have to? Maybe God has to play by some ruleset unkown to us to keep the universe running. Thinking of it like an engine, you can't leave off, say, the intake valves to get better flow into the cylinder even if you're designing from the ground up. That's my theory, anyways.
“Our paper defines ‘omnipotent’ as ‘possessing the maximum possible administrative rights within the boundaries of the simulation-’”
- Anon-kun et al, Boundaries of the Infinite, Tumblr Journal of Experimental Philosophy Vol. VII, 2017
My steelman estimate is that, if we posit a capital-G God, even said God cannot skip steps in computation - that is, in order to find the end of existence, He must imagine it in sufficient detail such that he effectively creates it.
Of course, that still leaves a lot more room for patching and interventions, so my real estimate is that there is no God, or if there is a God, God does something like create every possible reality or some very large subset of possible realities.
