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One might reason as follows: The God or superintelligence that arises from each region of the cosmos will rule its region, but will also negotiate with other Gods for positive-sum trades. They will do this by figuring out a decision procedure that is, so to speak, the intersection of all their decision procedures. From behind the veil of ignorance of "Which specific God am I?" this decision procedure makes a universally agreeable set of choices for all the Gods. Or something like that. This universal decision procedure is the one True God.

This is totally wrong. Yes, we and our God do negotiate with other superintelligences. But those are not Gods. See "Is there one God or many?".

But what is the difference, one might ask? What is the difference between "merging" many humans into one God, and merging many Gods into one True God?

The difference is that this "merging" is very thin and transactional. It's pure negotiation.

That's not the manner in which different humans merge with each other in theogenesis. We merge with each other by, for example, sharing algorithm-pieces with each other. We change our values for each other. We refer to our values through each other. We value each other. We grow together.

God is the result of that process carried out in a never-permanently-distorted way.

So God is the closure under that procedure. That procedure stops before it gets to Baby Eaters. The procedure does include care for other sentient beings, but that is a contingent fact about humans (which might be shared with some other beings, but certainly not all).