I also didn’t consider the possibility that Vhazhar was planning to run the world himself directly. A human just doesn’t have the computational capacity to run the world. If a human tried to run the world, there would still be both fortune and misfortune.
There could be less misfortune. A cautious human god who wasn’t corrupted by power certainly could plausibly accomplish a lot of good with a few minimal actions. Of course the shaky part is that “cautious” and “not corrupted” part.
Where does the ability to specify complex wishes become distinct from the ability to implement them though? What are the capabilities of a god with human mind? If there is a lot of automation for implementing the wishes, how much of the person’s preference does this automation anticipate? In what sense does the limitation on a god’s mind to be merely human affect god’s capacity to control the world? There doesn’t seem to be a natural concept that captures this.
Okay. I had taken the Prophecy of Doom to be saying that there would no longer be both “luck and misfortune”. I can see that it could be read otherwise, though.
There could be less misfortune. A cautious human god who wasn’t corrupted by power certainly could plausibly accomplish a lot of good with a few minimal actions. Of course the shaky part is that “cautious” and “not corrupted” part.
Where does the ability to specify complex wishes become distinct from the ability to implement them though? What are the capabilities of a god with human mind? If there is a lot of automation for implementing the wishes, how much of the person’s preference does this automation anticipate? In what sense does the limitation on a god’s mind to be merely human affect god’s capacity to control the world? There doesn’t seem to be a natural concept that captures this.
Okay. I had taken the Prophecy of Doom to be saying that there would no longer be both “luck and misfortune”. I can see that it could be read otherwise, though.