As far as I know, the only way to prevent people from joining a cult is a) warn people it's a cult and b) make the cult less powerful and attractive.
maol
joined 1 year ago
embed physics into computation
Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?
these people said "what if we had a church that was also a country with a monarchy" and then cooked for like 800 years
edit: although I think the actual borders only got defined in like the 20th century?
Back in the day (i.e 2015), .vu custom domains were pretty popular with Tumblr bloggers - I think Vanuatu gave away free urls?
Linked in the article: the designer/programmer has now done the obligatory "Well I didn't think there was anything wrong with it" AI bot post mortem interview with a Catholic blog.
"AI gore, smug and pretentiousness" is a good summary of the sneer-subject of this server.
More of a Woodstock mud puddle than anything else
The actual Vatican seems to use its own .va domain name, which neatly sidesteps the .com vs .org dilemma.....but doesn't explain why they let randomers use catholic.com and catholic.org.
Is it an offence against the church for a group of lay theologians to ordain an AI? no idea. It is very funny though
Yeah, but there was a lot of blood under the bridge before they could make a truce. But I'd never heard of the truce, that's beautiful. ETA: sadly it seems the truce didn't hold more than 10 years, which is still pretty good. The original Israel-Egypt treaty it was based on seems to have held for about 4 years
Every time I read the words "Dimes Square" a red mist descends