HopingForBetter

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to games in Looking for recommendations for a specific type of gaming YouTube channel

Whatculture gaming is decent enough.

Some hosts/writers are more genuine than others.

Jules is GOAT.

I don’t watch it all the time, but it’s usually up-to-date gaming news.

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

So, I like the Roko’s Basalisk paradox.

Basically, a super-powered future A.I. that knows whether or not you will build it. If you decide to do nothing, once it gets built, it will torture your consciousness forever (bringing you “back from the dead” or whatever is closest to that for virtual consciousness ability). If you drop everything and start building it now, you’re safe.

Love the discussion of this post, btw.

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

So, we’re back to a paradox.

Thanks.

And… blocked.

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

I appreciate your response.

But, the question is if they could or not.

Of course, free will is an interesting factor to introduce. But I do not know if it applies to the hypothetical…

Thank you for adding (and making me think more).

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

To add a bit of fun to this, try the following:

1. Open your calculator app and enter: 1/0.9

Does it equal 1? No.

2. Ok, now add a “9” to the end of the second number.

Does it equal 1? No.

Ok, repeat step 2 and eventually it will equal 1. Why?

Is it that we are incapable of indefinitely dividing? No, the previous steps showed it just takes a few more steps and the answer doesn’t equal 1.

Hope you enjoy!

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

So, what you’re saying is, if it doesn’t fit our logic, we have to make up a logic so it fits our logic?

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

This stuff is not philosophy of religion 101, though it might be one seminary professor’s lesson notes in systematic theology for christianity. Specific religions will typically have mental gymnastics or say things like, “It’s just too complicated to understand with our limited capacity as mortals.”

Given a being exists outside of this reality, the laws of this reality do not apply to it. And given a being created this reality, that being can do whatever it wants, regardless of this reality and it’s laws. So the paradox still stands.

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

If the answer is yes, then it negates “all-powerful” because it cannot withstand it’s own power. Similarly, if “no”, then it is not strong enough to destroy itself and, thereby, not all-poweful.

So, it’s a paradox because “all-powerful” is typically used as “unkillable”, but also carries a connotation of “can-destroy-anything”. So, can something that is capable of destroying anything and cannot die kill itself?

Greek mythology had the dad-god “defeated” by being cut into literal pieces and scattered, but he wasn’t really dead. And Zeus’ siblings were eaten by his dad so they wouldn’t usurp him, but they didn’t die and he later puked them up.

But none of these were touted as all-powerful, biggest than bigger bigly, cannot be killed but can kill everything else.

A similar question on this line is can an all-powerful god make a rock too big for even said god to lift?

HopingForBetter , 3 months ago to insanepeoplefacebook in Sure lady, you bet.

What if the moon were made of spare ribs?

Would ya eat it?

I know I would!