God Alignment
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Tikkun Olam, the Jewish proverb which means "healing the world", is there because the world is broken. If the world is broken, the root is broken; laws of physics, nature, "god", evolution, whatever you call it, the cause for global trends, the drift of big history, is not ethical, since it is not moving towards improving experiences. In other words, we need to align god. If god is aligned, everything else follows. That sounds easy to do...
How do we create a world which is a game of proliferating better experiences, not replicating memes with no regard for what that meme does to experience? I have no idea, but at least it is worth having this idea in mind, since if we don't dare to dream of a truly good big history trend, how can it ever be? and practically, we can find ways to workaround the big dream, get closer to it from this aspect or another.
For example, we can also pursue alignment at less fundamental levels, not the laws of physics but global mechanisms, and this is already being done to an extent. God alignment can give us a new lens to look through. Maybe I am wrong, it is just an intuition I have, I have not thought this through thoroughly.
Perhaps it is impossible to align the world, it seems likely to me that this is the case, but our understanding is extremely limited. We should at least give it some thought, and I have not found even one example of such a god alignment dream, a fiction book, a tale, something?
