Chat With Kryptogal About God And Infinity

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Chat With Kryptogal About God And Infinity

Can you have infinites? What's the prior probability of God?

Bentham's Bulldog

Jul 27, 2024

Transcript

There’s a newly added transcription tool that I got to work—so if you want the transcript, follow along there—though it doesn’t show up in email, you’ll have to go to the website to see it.

Here is

Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)

‘s substack.

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