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Re:'God' is the average opinion of your tribe by alexmolas on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:39AM (#39080011)
Given a big enough n every tribe member will be a dissident. Mathematically it can be shown that as n grows the distance between the average vector and any other vector grows, ie: in the limit everyone is a dissident. Therefore I don't think this notion of God makes any sense.

I recommend you this notebook for an in depth analysis of the phenomenon https://allendowney.github.io/ProbablyOverthinkingIt/gaussia...

Re:'God' is the average opinion of your tribe by shunyaekam on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:08PM (#39082474)
OP here.

Cool. Thanks for the link!