so they end up being useful for debunking a handful of obvious hoaxes, but they really can only handle low-hanging fruit
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this sounds clever but i'm not parsing it. can you elaborate, if you feel like it?
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sure. what i'm saying is that "gods" and such have a referents in social systems, which old timey fuckers like Sophocles understood fine.
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but abstractions make for bad branding so a lot of hilarious fluff grew up around the concept, all of it just fucking ridiculous
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oh, okay. the way i think of this is with gods as models, just like the ones we have for, say, molecules
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so they mostly explain stuff but then the context gets stripped and you end up going to war with someone because of quantum mechanics
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that's a good avenue of thinking yeah. what i'm saying is that, for example, the Torah is the source code for a god called "is/was/will be"
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that is very snow crash
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snow crash is barely even distorting anything for story purposes, our neal knows some shit
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