I’m a geek and a fan of a more mathematical way of writing computer programs. This gives rise to functional programming and, when you go off the deep end, category theory. At least two pieces of research during the 20th century are fundamental and interesting because they were discovered effectively twice at the same time. Once in the field of computer science and once in the field of mathematics. One here is the Church-Turing thesis and the other is Hindley-Milner type inference.

It gives a lot more power and reason to believe in the new unproven concepts if multiple people with different world views come up with the same idea.

When listening to two episodes of the Lex Fridman podcast recently I came across a Christian Bishop and a grown up hacker both discussing their ideas for what God is.

“Tolkien is utterly responsible for every bit of that story right every character every plot every subplot every description he’s completely responsible he’s involved in every nook and cranny of it but he’s not in the story he’s not in the book you’re not going to find him as a character in the book”

– Bishop Robert Barron

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[Lex] What’s your own belief in God
and how does that affect your work?
[George] You know, I never really considered, when I was younger, I guess my parents were atheists, so I was raised kind of atheist and I never really considered how absolutely silly atheism is. ‘Cause I create worlds. Every game creator, how are you an atheist, bro? You create worlds whobro. “But no one created artour world, man. That’s different. Haven’t you heard about like the Big Bang and stuff?”

– George Hotz

Now even further these are two people with two very different world views who think of two ways of looking at the same thing.

One via the writer like, Tolkien or Pratchett – they create their worlds, not just stories of people in our world, they are entire worlds. The other via the game programmer, especially now that graphics allows it, create all consuming worlds.

How can we not consider the very real possibility that if humans create worlds, a very advanced being (even a very advanced human) could create the world that we are in.

Or at least its reasonable to assume that there could be a creator:

1. We exist, we create worlds
2. So, there are beings that create worlds
3. So, a being created this world.

I’m calling this the Barron-Hotz hypothesis. Its creators, all the way down.