Technology

So they are labeling a brand new (and obviously flawed) AI as a priest, but women (who are human beings) still can't be priests?

Sorry ladies, you've now fallen further down the ladder.

• Regular straight Catholic men - acceptable priest
• Gay Catholic men - acceptable priest (as long as they don't get caught)
• Male converted Anglican priests - acceptable priest (in some scenarios)
• Catholic men with gross sexual habits - acceptable priest
• Flawed AIs - acceptable priest
• Corporations - soon to be priests?
• Catholic women - ABSOLUTELY NOT!

It thought this was the new Vatican DLC for Civ VI when I saw the image, lol

Didn't molest any kids, making him the best clergy member in the church.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

If a Catholic AI won't be allowed to officiate my wedding, at least Taco Bell will host it. So we're still not far from Idiocracy!

1. Does AWOL mean something other than "Absent without leave"? Cuz that's a weird way to describe a computer algorithm.

2. ...aight so I'm definitely not a theologist, but... according to christianity, or catholocism specifically... is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism? I'd assume it just says "water", but there's water in gatorade. Sure there's also other shit in gatorade, but there's other shit in tap water too. Even distilled water isn't going to be 100% pure.

And if gatorade's cool, where do they draw the line? Could you baptize a baby with honey? Or drop a steak onto the kid's face (there's water in those too!). Does it even have to be liquid water? Like what if you just threw some icecubes at the kid, or blasted some steam in its face??

So many questions!

Christians are remarkably inconsistent about what is natural and good or unnatural and bad.

Poorly trained AI if it didn't realize to be safe in the priesthood you have to go after children.

Idiocracy

What flavors did it deem acceptable? My denomination draws the line at Riptide Rush.

Obviously you don't baptise babies in Gatorade, you use Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

These damn simpletons

At least AI can't rape children physically.

Some day...