From: Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper (guruzeb@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 18:00:00 MDT
At 22:35 10/09/01, you wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, J. R. Molloy wrote:
>
> > Do you think the Pope will be able to accept solutions offered by
> > machine intelligence which contradict the dogma of the church? Remember
> > Galileo?
>
>When the smoke goes up the chimney I want to see Pope Roboticus I in
>office. Name one socially useful thing a pope does now which Pope
>Roboticus I cannot do.
>
>POC
My God man !!!!!!!! Whats wrong with you, don't you realize. Telling
millions of poorly educated ppl
in developing nations, struggling away with disease and poverty, at various
levels of subsistence living,
that they should not use contraception of any kind ( That actually works )
is THE MOST socially useful thing
a Pope can do, the present incumbent does it better than anyone else i can
think of.
He's also rather good at reminding ppl, that if they do use working
contraceptives, or happen to be attracted to
the same sex and act on the urge. That unless they repent and display due
contrition they are guaranteed to
burn in hell for all eternity.
Now i am sure that any kind of robotic/AI Pope ( i hesitate to use the
phrase AI in connection with the word
Pope since i have a nagging sense of a potential oxymoron, but i'll press
on ) would be far to rational to engage
the flock with anything as useful as the ideas i've outlined above.
repent. repent for the hour of judgement is nigh. ( who cares 15 ah
fathers, and 25 hail Mary's and am off the hook )
Keep it real, if you don't nobody else will
Zebster
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Guru Zeb,
Hacienda,
Manchester, 1989
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