everybody asks whether God can use His omnipotence to make a rock so big He can’t lift it, nobody asks whether God can use His omniscience to know things that aren’t true
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Chaos Retweeted Steven Brust, pjf
exactly what if omniscience forestalls the possibility of error what if being mistaken, being deluded, believing lies are *powers we possess which God does not*https://twitter.com/StevenBrust/status/1392640966268358657?s=20 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
being mistaken or deluded are privations of knowledge and therefore not powers in and of themselves
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Replying to @ne0agent1c @chaosprime
Try watching thousands of hours worth of idiots playing poker sometime and tell me this.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @chaosprime
because sometimes mistakes and delusions have positive payoffs in their environment?
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Replying to @ne0agent1c @chaosprime
Sklansky called the INTENTIONAL faking of error the "battle of mistakes", but most competitors in this mistake battle aren't even playing on purpose, yet they still win or lose accordingly.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @chaosprime
knowing how to act like you don't know is not a privation and can be adapted to specific circumstances where figuring what others know or don't know influences how one decides to act because every action is information
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Replying to @ne0agent1c @chaosprime
Yes, but what I'm saying is that probably 90% of what happens at a poker table happens by accident, yet none of the people involved seem to know that, and life goes on anyway.
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It applies without loss of generality to life. Everyone thinks that what they experience is a result of the merits of what they do, but for the vast majority of people this is false. The vast majority of people live by something like a demonic form of grace.
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Replying to @ne0agent1c
"Power" is more or less just the bundle of accidents you were born into. A lion's "power" and a gazelle's "power" are equivalent to their facticity, which is not intentional strategy so much as a series of accidents unfolding in context. Breaking free of context is very hard.
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