I concede. But don't you think Pope Roboticus would meet human equivalency
at waving from the back of a Robotic Pope-Mobile?
POC
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ***The opinions expressed above are the personal views of Adrian Harpers
> Hind Brain***
> ***primarily the Medulla Oblongata. The Frontal Lobes and Cerebral Cortex
> of Adrian***
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>
>
> "FURIOUS GREEN DREAMS, LAY SLEEPING IN STATE,
> BUT SOON THE GREAT JELLY SHALL RISE FROM THE
> DEPTHS,
> AND ALL THOSE WHO MOCKED SHALL KNOW THEIR FATE
> IS SEALED"
> Guru Zeb,
> Hacienda,
> Manchester, 1989
>
>
>
>
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