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> he’d run a program and it would generate some random output and he said that those were words from god. I have to assume that this was very much because of hi
by xanderlewis 3y ago
> he’d run a program and it would generate some random output and he said that those were words from god. I have to assume that this was very much because of his condition.
I actually think that seems perfectly internally consistent from the perspective of someone who seriously believes in a god. If (pseudo)random numbers and therefore the output of that program aren’t controlled by god, what is?
- jamesu 3y agoIt amazes me how much terry latched onto that idea, even binding the "god says" functionality to the F7 key in TempleOS. Sometimes I wonder how he would have reacted to ChatGPT and LLMs.
- whstl 3y agoIt's not that different from divination, lots of people latch into those ideas too. In the end Terry just found a faster source of randomness. Even as a non-religious person, I think that was one of the most relatable aspects of him. He really wanted to communicate.