{"id":14396,"date":"2013-08-28T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14396"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:55:45","slug":"priestbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/08\/priestbots\/","title":{"rendered":"Priestbots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eye of the Tiber hilarious as usual:<\/p>\n

Prototype clergydroid Fr. SRT4\u201311392 celebrating its first wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n

Vatican\u2013\u2013The Vatican has confirmed reports today that an agreement has been reached with the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) to begin development of what they are calling \u201cClergydroids.\u201d The news comes as relief to many seminary directors around the world that have seen their numbers plummet in the past few decades. \u201cWith so little priests and so many Catholics, this is going to help assure that every parish not only has a pastor of their own, but also an associate pastor,\u201d Father Tobi Riland told the press earlier this morning. \u201cI \u00a0have had the pleasure of having a prototype absolve me of my sins. I\u2019ll tell you one thing\u2026he didn\u2019t\u2026excuse me, it<\/em> didn\u2019t forget the words of absolution!\u201d One Vatican official, Monsignor Phillip Rudolph, who spearheaded the negotiations, told EOTT that \u201cwhen you see those big, blue glowing eyes peering through the confessional grill at you, it feels as though they\u2019re burning right through you. Seriously though\u2026they freaking burn. Look at this burn mark on my throat. It\u2019s a malfunction in the prototype that the IFR promise to resolve before their final launch next May.\u201d Another issue with of the clergydroid prototype Fr. SRT4\u201311392 includes a recent frying of some of its\u00a0mechanisms\u00a0and kinematics after an\u00a0altar boy attempted to pour water on the clergydroid\u2019s titanium fingers. Witnesses say that Fr. SRT4\u201311392\u2032s final words before catching fire were, \u201cLord, wash away my iniqui\u2026iniqui\u2026iniqui\u2026iniqui. Oh, no\u2026just when I was learning to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nStories involving robots that have obtained intelligence have been SF staples over the years. As pure conjecture what would happen if an artificial creature was actually sentient? Then such a creature could come to know God. This could cause problems though (besides Baptism and having to be soaked in rice afterwards to avoid system failure.). I can easily imagine a Robot Ordination Conference upset that the Catholic Church will not ordain them. The horror of inequality and making robots second class citizens in the Church. Robots citing St. Paul There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” while perhaps wearing pant suits. No doubt we would have all the sympathetic story from the media about robots desiring ordination and the injustice of it all. Especially after the Episcopalian Priestbots.<\/p>\n

While we are conjecturing about such Priestbots, how about programming them with the three laws ala Asimov.<\/p>\n

The first law would obviously have to be \u201cSay the black, do the red.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hey maybe just one law would be enough.<\/p>\n

In reality though I am extremely skeptical of an artificial intelligence leading to actual sentience. Instead of AI I much prefer SF writer Mike Flynn\u2019s term Artificial Stupidity (AS) as much more accurate term regarding programming of machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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