The rare people who want to determine the right divinity will be satisfied with the answer that there’s no divinity. Most people, who just want to pray to Yahweh or whatever, can keep doing it in the VR utopia if they like :-)
There is no reason that some people cannot have their VR arranged so that their prayers are always answered. And if you say that it isn’t “really” God who is answering them, that requires you to explain exactly what it would mean in the first place. If you succeed in explaining the “real” meaning, it might not be so impossible after all.
I’m thinking about the utility of praying to the right divinity. It’s hard to connect to something that doesn’t exists.
The rare people who want to determine the right divinity will be satisfied with the answer that there’s no divinity. Most people, who just want to pray to Yahweh or whatever, can keep doing it in the VR utopia if they like :-)
There is no reason that some people cannot have their VR arranged so that their prayers are always answered. And if you say that it isn’t “really” God who is answering them, that requires you to explain exactly what it would mean in the first place. If you succeed in explaining the “real” meaning, it might not be so impossible after all.
Their own VR, yes (though I expect it will do bad things to these people), but a shared VR, no because some prayers will conflict.
You’re asking people to rescue their own utility functions or else. I wouldn’t buy a FAI that worked like that.