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comment by CronoDAS · 2017-07-04T17:19:22.391Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This reads like crackpot gibberish. We don't actually believe in Kabbalah here.
Replies from: arisen↑ comment by arisen · 2017-07-04T17:45:50.290Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I agree. My perspective is, if this is a simulated reality, then it's best to look at ideals of perfection in different cultures, and based on that fine grain the problem of evil. I don't believe in Kabbalah either, but Judaism it's the archetypal base of a lot of religious people, so I believe is best to understand it, if we can brake it down to archetypes and objective perfection. Subjective perfection and its copy like replication, I believe is a problem to be addressed.
comment by metatroll · 2017-07-04T20:03:20.517Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I haven't read Unsong, but the qliphoth tell me that in one memorable chapter, the soul of Hitler is depicted as having been trapped in a tensor processing unit by a team of 33rd-degree rabbis from the Federal Reserve Bank of Hollywood, where at 900 terahertz it will be trained on a set of items drawn from American popular culture until it embraces tikkun olam. That hasn't happened yet, but meanwhile, amidst wails in Low High German that "Das Dummen, es brennt!", it relives the primal scene of Nazi defeat, thereby generating all those Downfall parody videos on YouTube.
comment by ZankerH · 2017-07-05T19:19:53.632Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This is why anti-semitism exists.
Replies from: Jacobian↑ comment by Jacob Falkovich (Jacobian) · 2017-07-05T21:37:06.803Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
On the list of "Top 100 causes of anti-Semitism", this is #827.