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Sjlver's avatar

If you like the type of question discussed in this article, you might also enjoy https://allthingsnew.tech/searching-for-numbers-and-finding-god/

It's an article about paradoxa that arise from a different type of infinity, namely programs that run infinitely long or have infinitely many inputs. They are surprisingly similar to some questions about God, such as: can an all-powerful God create a stone that is so heavy that even God himself can’t lift it?

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Noah Birnbaum's avatar

Though not being a Christian, I've always found questions of Christian ethics and infinite heaven to be quite interesting. One question that I've always had was: under a consequentialist framework, wouldn't the most effective altruism from a Christian perspective be converting people - with high but finite or infinite expected value. It seems like missionizing would drastically outweigh any other decision (like saving people, etc). Perhaps one can still make the argument for longtermism as you get all the value of future christians only if people still exist in the future, but it seems to be really hard to make an argument for, say, animal welfare or global health and development. While one could argue that people dying from global dev stuff would make for less potential christians, it is probably more cost-effective to missionize someone than to save them and then missionize them.

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