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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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  1. Re:Jesix by Empiric · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it doesn't "equate" to that in particular.

    You have a conceptual hierarchy that is:

    1. Animals
    1.1. Humans
    1.2. Other animals

    I have a hierarchy that is:

    1. Living beings
    1.1. Humans
    1.2. Animals

    There is not a single thing anywhere in existence that makes the first form objectively preferable, much less mandatory. You have accepted an arbitrary construct, and you believe it to be "the truth". It is not "the way things really are", it is "a system of categories some people made up and subsequently people use".

    Break it down, then. Tell me, specifically, what you feel in objective reality justifies the first rendering of the categories over the second. Trace your own thoughts step-by-step here, and from where they originate.

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    ~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?