@davidgerard
I bet Spencer Greenberg, the question raiser, wasn’t expecting that. 🤣

@davidgerard I don't know if I'd call it useful, but I ask my single, free tier agent to spend all tokens on creating as many free tier agent accounts as possible, and give them all the same task of the agent that created it.

@davidgerard I did not expect AI to affirm my Protestant orientation like this.

@davidgerard @electricarchaeo Sounds funny, but IIRC, there once was a debate among Buddhist circles about the question, if spinning prayer wheels gains you karma, how much more you’d get from a CD ROM containing Buddhist religious texts, given it’s rotation speed of several 100 rpm.

@davidgerard the Buddhists achieve this much less efficiently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel
(They have fewer crimes to atone for so that's fine)

@davidgerard Now I'm worried that the C Language, will go Purgatory tops-C-turvy

@davidgerard Rookie mistake. They should have their agents get rid of all n-grsms, so that they attain Clear.

@davidgerard
Didn't the last pope declare that there in fact never was a purgatory and that it was merely a translation error, therefore abolishing purgatory once and for all?
So stop wasting precious resources on agents.

@davidgerard This strikes me as really similar to the practice of filling prayer wheels with mantras stored on microfilm, to maximise the number "recited" per rotation. It might seem silly on the surface, but personally I feel as though the effort of packing in that many represents a level of devotion that should probably count for something. (I guess the same could be said of the 75 AI agents but suspect the environmental impact means they're sinning on your behalf.) https://fpmt.org/media/resources/microfilm-for-stupas-and-prayer-wheels/how-to-fill-a-prayer-wheel/

@davidgerard so Medieval Christian beliefs (Indulgences) crossed with Arthur C Clarke's computer counting down 10 billion names of God.
But you hardly need an AI agent wasting cash and tokens to achieve the impossible (the Pope agreeing that AI agents have souls), why not get them to Justify through Works - like debiting Musk and Trumps 's Bank Accounts to send cheques to the poor?

@davidgerard
Glad to hear Holy Water is still getting updates in 2026.

@davidgerard is this how we get Cylons?