Charlie StrossFeb 27

From bluesky:

Posit that to be judged for a sin implies that information about the sin is available to god/jesus.

Information implies entropy implies energy implies mass.

...so you can run an attack on heaven by sinmaxxing so hard Christ converts into a black hole from sheer acquired mass-energy and oneshots God by trapping him in something not even His light can escape from

Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of PnictogenFeb 27
@cstross typically fatuous assumptions at work here. why should one assume that it takes much more information to describe a million sins than to describe only one? sins generalize with ease. that's why the concept of cardinal sins exists, because sins fall readily into a compact set of abstractions, and all individual sins boil down to "being A (the sinner) willfully injured being B (the victim)" with the rest being incidental detail in the eyes of a Creator who already knows all details of Creation anyway.
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 27
@mxchara But sins are committed by sinners! Which implies more than one bit of information per sin. Indeed, there may be mitigating or modifying parameters. Every instance of a sin is unique and must be accounted for separately!
Show threadHighlandLawyerFeb 27
@cstross @mxchara
Is the RC Church correct that forming the intent to commit a sinful act is itself a separate sin from the subsequent act? Though in that case there's presumably a by reference value combined with vector variables for any variation from the original.
Show threadFiona Craig
@HighlandLawyer @cstross @mxchara Welp, there's the book title, "The Calculus of Sin"
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Show threadHugo MillsFeb 27
@FionaCraig @HighlandLawyer @cstross @mxchara Presumably the calculus of sin allows you to solve the differential equation describing the R-C circuit in the Church, and determine that it's all sin (or cos, with a phase offset).
Show threadJonFeb 27

@darkling @FionaCraig @HighlandLawyer @cstross @mxchara the longer this thread goes on, the faster the Demons build out the new Circle of Nerdpunning.

It's the only Circle where the Demons suffer more than the Souls they're in charge of.