King James Programming

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "What do you get when you train a Markov chain on the King James Bible and a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs? King James Programming — a tumblr of auto-generated pseudo-scripture (or pseudo-compsci lessons). Some examples: -- 'The LORD is the beginning (or prefix) of the code for the body of the procedure.' -- 'More precisely, if P and Q are polynomials, let O1 be the order of blessed.' -- ''In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there shall they see the Son of man, in whose sight I brought them out.'"

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Re:Jesix

[Empiric]

You seem to be confusing the issue of your worldview lacking any reason to have a distinct category of "human", with my non-necessity of categorizing them as a subset of "animal".

They share attributes, that is true. However, much as I don't have to categorize a "car" as a "truck" because they both have engines, drivetrains, etc., I in fact do not have to categorize "human" as a subset of "animal".

There really is no epistemological, scientific, or other force on Earth compelling this categorization. You have an arbitrary, if widely-held, construct, which you assent to largely for the reasons stated. You've been, quite simply, effectively hypnotized by repetition into considering it "self-evident".

And, yes, there is a great deal of evidence we have qualitatively unique traits (though, indeed, from your worldview you are indeed incapable of producing any). Simply none you'll accept as evidence. Fortunately, your non-acceptance of evidence, in no way lessens the fact of it being evidence.