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    You can literally do it with spit… And that’s not a hypothetical. You can do it with any fluid if necessary… How is this controversial?

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    I mean, I’m not a theologist or anything, but based on other precedents, if someone was dying and wanted to be baptized at the last second, and no source of water could be arranged on time, the Gatorade baptism would probably be accepted by the Catholic church.

    Transubstantiation of Gatorade into Holy Water doesn’t even sound that outrageous when priests claim to transubstantiate wine to blood on a daily basis.

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      21 hours ago

      This seems to mean that priests can theoretically make any liquid holy, thereby making holy Gatorade.

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        I just checked and it seems that unfortunately not. At least catholic Priests are only allowed to bless “true water”, which is usually understood to mean that nothing was purposely added to it (with the exception of certain salts for rituals like exorcism).

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          So is tap water okay, or only where it isn’t fluoridated? What about sea water ? Heavy water ? Rain water ?

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      19 hours ago

      Bartender: “Sorry, dude, you’ve had quite a few drinks, I have to cut you off, only water for you from now on.”

      Jesus: "Dammit… "

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      To be fair if you make an AI and ask it to be an authentic catholic priest you’d essentially have to reward it for such actions because it understood the assignment. Now why you’d make such an abomination in the first place that I don’t know. The ways of the lord and all that…

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        Turns out “the ways of the lord” = capitalism. That’s probably why he condemned his socialist son to torture and crucifixion; for the crime of empathy! God was like “Helping the poor? Absolutely fucking not!”.

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          The history of all Religions is as a control mechanism used to make people self police in the absence of a formal law enforcement system.

          So that’s why heinous deeds that don’t threaten the power structure get a pass.

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    I mean, water has to be blessed by a priest first before it becomes holy. So, what if the only thing available is a bottle of Gatorade but you have a priest? Couldn’t he bless the Gatorade so that the person could be baptized?

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      21 hours ago

      Yes, that would be consistent with Catholic doctrine.
      Which means the AI is entirely correct.

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      This is an interesting question. You can use saliva to baptize in the event of an emergency (lick your thumb and make the sign of the cross on the forehead, in the name of Father, Son, Holy Spirit—but that would likely need a secondary “proper” baptism if the emergency passes, this one counting as “conditional”). Which I guess would supersede ever needing Gatorade since you always have saliva.

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    I have been in IT for 20 years, have both a BS and MS in Information Technology, and I will never understand why EVERYONE has such a hard-on for AI; especially given its track record of “hallucinations”.

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        Much of the craze is almost religious. You have for example Singularitarianism. Basically “Man creates AI, which will create artificial general intelligence, which will create artificial super intelligence, which will bring us the singularity, release us from drudgery and give us eternal life.”

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      You have been in IT for 20 years and don’t understand this? Has your career not made it abundantly clear that the average person is completely computer illiterate and has no idea what AI even is? How many people have you had to assist in 20 years who insist that they have tried every possible solution, only to find out that something isn’t even plugged in or turned on?

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        And that high level management drives decisions about what technologies to adopt, when they know nothing about it.

        Some sales guy on the golf course told them about it.

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        I made a mistake in my comment; I failed to clarify that I was referring to the IT industry and not your every day layman. For example, I work under two levels below our CIO/Vice Chancellor (i.e. second in command from the Chancellor/President) of a university, and despite all of the evidence available to them, they still wish to shove AI down our throats.

        I will also be interviewing with an IT company next week who prides themselves on “everyone at every level being engineers” who espouse AI coding as the next level for their internal frameworks.

        These are the people who are supposed to know better.

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      I don’t doubt that you’re good with technology but, I’ve met MANY people in the information technology field, even with their MS, who were fucking idiots and barely knew shit about technology outside what they needed to know for their specific job.

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        I’ve never seen an IT project where the majority of people on it had an ad blocker installed.

        I definitely overestimated how tech savvy IT workers were before I started working with them.

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            20 hours ago

            Where I work we have a whitelisted set of extensions we can install from the Chrome store (no Firefox unfortunately).

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      In IT for 25ish years, 20+ as a developer. I have used AI a handful of times for generally two things.

      • find/make me an example of something in <poorly-documented-library> when troubleshooting an issue
      • restating a question/search to get better results

      Certainly, I played with it more off and on after it came out, but those are the two real success cases I’ve had with it. I certainly would never let the thing write code for me, particularly where security and optimization are concerned.

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        I’ve used AI to summarize long text, and that is a helpful use. I’m really concerned about the growing dependence on having aAI write code.

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      its the potential of AI that people have a hard on for. look how far AI has come in a mere 5 years. now imagine 5 more, or even 20 more.

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      I cautiously review new tech to develop practical uses for it. I constantly live in doubt of a tech being a replacement for all that came before. So far it never has.

      But helping me fix python code, creating a conversation about IT policy and draft policy creation, cleaning up mass emails before I hit send are all fantastic daily uses for AI in my job