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I feel a dystopian future. Never underestimate what our fellow humans can do.

082349872349872 2y ago
In feudal times, society was divided into three parts: bellatores, those who fought; oratores, those who prayed; and laboratores, those who worked. According to this model of the world, even if AI took over the fighting and the working, at least humans could still occupy themselves with praying.
- imtringued 2y ago
  I'm pretty sure there is a timeline where humans are atheists but the robots are religious.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Religious automation has prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel#Electric_dharma_wheels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel#Electric_dharma_w... When the robots are doing all the praying too, how will we occupy the humans? Yoga and woodworking? Social media? (the latter including faffing about on HN)
  - selimthegrim 2y ago
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- hnthrowaway0328 2y ago
  It's going to be so competitive.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    The Onion's been covering the competitive circuit since 1996, when trash talk was all the rage in prayer playoffs: > LHASA, TIBET—Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6. “I am the serenest!” Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. “No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai Bikram—I am the greatest monk of all time!” Sri Dhananjai Bikram walked away with the World Yoga Championship after averaging 1.89 breaths per minute for two straight hours. "I'm blissful! You blissful?! I'm blissful!" he screamed repeatedly to the other yogis.
  - belter 2y ago
    You just have to find your niche... I am bullish on the Religion of the prophet of Linux in the Desktop.
- selimthegrim 2y ago
  This sounds Manichaean actually.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    If it were Manichaean, is there any way to make sure one would be praying to the correct side of the duality? (I'm thinking of Dijkstra, who went to a lot of effort to rediscover, with OR & EQV, the mirror image of what EE's and russian mathematicians had already figured out, with AND & XOR)

In feudal times, society was divided into three parts: bellatores, those who fought; oratores, those who prayed; and laboratores, those who worked. According to this model of the world, even if AI took over the fighting and the working, at least humans could still occupy themselves with praying.

imtringued 2y ago
I'm pretty sure there is a timeline where humans are atheists but the robots are religious.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Religious automation has prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel#Electric_dharma_wheels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel#Electric_dharma_w... When the robots are doing all the praying too, how will we occupy the humans? Yoga and woodworking? Social media? (the latter including faffing about on HN)
- selimthegrim 2y ago
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hnthrowaway0328 2y ago
It's going to be so competitive.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  The Onion's been covering the competitive circuit since 1996, when trash talk was all the rage in prayer playoffs: > LHASA, TIBET—Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6. “I am the serenest!” Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. “No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai Bikram—I am the greatest monk of all time!” Sri Dhananjai Bikram walked away with the World Yoga Championship after averaging 1.89 breaths per minute for two straight hours. "I'm blissful! You blissful?! I'm blissful!" he screamed repeatedly to the other yogis.
- belter 2y ago
  You just have to find your niche... I am bullish on the Religion of the prophet of Linux in the Desktop.
selimthegrim 2y ago
This sounds Manichaean actually.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  If it were Manichaean, is there any way to make sure one would be praying to the correct side of the duality? (I'm thinking of Dijkstra, who went to a lot of effort to rediscover, with OR & EQV, the mirror image of what EE's and russian mathematicians had already figured out, with AND & XOR)