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The Papal Mainframe in Doctor Who is obviously infallible. Until in one episode it turned into a Dalek.
@davidgerard brb I gotta inject an om-mani-padme-hum bot into some malware
@davidgerard there are prayer machines buyable on amazon for $14 that run on a pair of AA batteries, and Amazon has an insane markup compared to their street costs
@davidgerard Dude! I know this story!
“King Philip II, promised God that he would perform an earthly miracle in exchange for his son's recovery. Philip II commissioned a watchmaker to build a mechanical monk, whose ability to pray around-the-clock might elicit the help of the divine.”
I can't possibly tell whether that is sarcasm...
@davidgerard I saw that the other day and some of the responses are a master class in treating a joke dead serious
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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 Roger Zelazny’s book “Lords of light“ has automated prayer machines. Just a trivia fact
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