Certainly not 54.

But we make AIs that are dumber than us for fun all the time. My favorite PC game as a kid was Creatures.

I know this! 42!!

This reminds me of a novel that I liked a lot, about time travel paradoxes, "Up the line" by Robert Silverberg. Recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Line?wprov=sfla1

Hmmm, I'm not so sure. Not sure one would be enough for me

The being with a true disability that is all-powerful must truly be aller-powerfuler than another being that lacks that true disability.

Yeah, it's a silly argument, but that's because theology as a whole is silly.

I do not think a being can be all-powerful and have a disability, because a disability is a lack of ability. Any limitations must be self-imposed and not substantive—they would have to be purely symbolic—or the being would otherwise be limited, and therefore not omnipotent.

• Husband: Will you still think I’m sexy when I’m old and gray?
• Wife: Of course, I will!
• Husband: Noted.

To be omnipotent, one must be capable of giving oneself perfect ability. It doesn't require that one must have perfect ability.

A being that is all-powerful despite having a disability must truly be more powerful than a being that doesn't have that limitation. In fact, the being that is all-powerful despite having the most limitations must be the most allest-powerfulest of all.

This is just the semantic word games you get with terms like "all-powerful". I've never cared for arguing about the term, because it's ill-defined 🤷

A lack of intellect is a dis-ability. To be omnipotent, one must have perfect ability.

It must have no need to expand its own intelligence even though it could, for if it's all-powerful, it must be able to do everything possible, while being dumb.

there is actually a belief systems like this and not like the lovecraftian comment. Maybe more philosophy in belief systems but it goe back to ancient philosophers and was proposed with christian intellectuals.

There's jumping to conclusions then there's diving into the conclusion abyss

I don't kmowbif the problem is my Lemmy app or what, but I can't resize this comic to make the teeny tiny text readable like I used to with smbc comics.

It is not that a smarter creator is more powerful, but that an all-powerful creator, by virtue of being all-powerful, must be capable of expanding its own intelligence. If it cannot, it is incapable of something, which makes it not all-powerful.

No step on snek, hiss!

A fox? I love foxes! Sure, let's be friends.

If we can design intelligences, most intelligences will be designed.

How do you prove that creating beings do not number greater than the intelligences they have created?

Of those intelligences, most will be smarter than us because otherwise they would have little use.

We create simple machines and inferior artificial "intelligences" with limited capabilities for menial tasks. It seems to me that it would make more sense to create many inferior intelligences for menial works, especially in robotics. For example, in mining, to reduce human loss.

We are likely designed intelligence.

How do we know a god exists? Or how do we know this god can create intelligences like ours, just because we (for the purposes of this hypothetical) can?

Our creator is even stupider [sic] than us.

This assumes that designed intelligences must be superior to their creators, which is not logical, as I pointed out. Still, let us assume there is a creator that is, as this comic states, omnipotent.

If this god is omnipotent, it would have, by virtue of omnipotence, no irremovable restrictions on its power, meaning it could expand its own intellect. So we cannot assume it is dumb.

If humans are created for our use, as the comic suggests, then this god must be self-serving. If the god that creates humans is omnipotent (and therefore capable of expanding its intellect) and self-serving, why create humans? The only reason that is visible to me is for worship or some other self-gratification. Why make worshipers with superior intellect? Imagine "awesome is the god who has half our intellect" as a hymn of praise! If anything, it is an insult.

God is all powerful and dumb.

If a deity is all-powerful and dumb, that deity can increase its intelligence because it is omnipotent. One cannot be both omnipotent and incapable of increasing one's own intelligence. For if one is incapable of anything, that being cannot also be omnipotent. One could argue on this basis that, since a lack of intellect is a disability, it is a lack of ability, and therefore incompatible with omnipotence.

If they weren't assless, they would be pants. But it's more fun to say "assless chaps" than it is to say "assless pants" or just "chaps".

Alt version - You should mention that earlier, while I was getting the gum.

Anyway, I have a fox... is fox enough?

A godly intelligence is to us what we are to children. May the children surpass us in every way. Also, clearly Mormonism is right.

How can beings of limited intelligence design an intelligence that is superior to their own? If they were capable of doing so, would that not undermine the idea that they have a limit on their intelligence? They must necessarily be intelligent enough to comprehend a state of intelligence greater than their own and imagine it clearly and then bring it into reality.

It would be more apt to say that an intelligence superior to our own would design itself after a certain point, at which point I don't think it's correct to say that we designed it, more that it evolved beyond it's own Human-designed limitations.

Just that one time.

I like that he goes back for another try as an old man