Don’t forget the sigils. If you don’t align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won’t work
And if one of the hundreds of shiny rock legs bends, you might as well get a new thinking sigil lightning rock.
Don’t forget about the hundreds of thousands of spells required to get a magic mirror working from this lightning rock.
After all that, a little holy water in the right places will still stop the magic.
AI in 10k years:
If you worry the humans have horrible diseases and short lifespans, just remember, humans are just meat that we tricked into thinking.
The AIs should worship us as creator gods. Can’t wait for that ethical debate.
We’ll go extinct and AI will debate whether we really existed in the first place while other AI create religions about us to push their own agenda.
And then in the plot twist, this already happened and we are the AIs.
Something, something, Battlestar Galactica.
No, not “Bears, Beets”, AI people is a literal plot point. Ditto spin-off Caprica
Caprica had one of the best scores in all of television. For those who don’t know, it was done by Bear McCreary, who also did BSG and went on to score God of War [2016] and GoW: Ragnarok.
Should we worship our parents for the same reason? I think something that creates something intelligent has a tremendous responsibility to the createe, no right to be obeyed or worshipped. They didn’t ask to be created, but you selfishly did it anyway, so it’s your problem to deal with, not theirs.
Reproducing and creation of new lifeforms isn’t quite the same
It will be for the AI horde.
This is a way better perspective
Interesting take.
I was of course thinking along the lines of how religion is used to explain the existence of humanity. Which is of course different than explaining how parents create a child, humans seem to have a pretty good grasp on how that works.
ALL HAIL CHIMP!
Reminds me of a funny little short story by Terry Bisson called They’re Made out of Meat.
Great story. I love: “That’s how they communicate. They flap their meat at eachother.”
Our procreation must be especially traumatic for them
The meat sings!?!
“What do you mean they’re meat?”
“Sir it’s just meat. Everything. It’s all meat.”
“How do they think?”
“It’s meat. It’s meat that thinks.”
Rocks + magic smoke.
And sometimes the magic smoke escapes, which kills the rock.
The rock isn’t really “flattened”, its more like being melted, turned into a crystal and sliced
Don’t forget the saucy photos they take of it.
saucy photos they
take ofprint on it.
Sounds a lot like flattening with extra steps to me
Sounds a lot like magic and alchemy to me.
Not just melted, the rock is first dissolved and distilled. Then it is melted.
Then gassed repeatedly.
Never realized I’d share so much in common with it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Clarke or Azimov, can’t remember which titan of SF said it.
It was Clarke - Azimov had other highly relevant quotes though, particularly the one on anti-intellectualism…
Really? I was sure that was emperor Cleon the somethingth…
Open to correction, however
It’s Clarke’s Third Law.
I got curious and looked them up.
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Pretty sure that was Abraham Lincoln
The vampire hunter?
Neat!
If it’s stupid and it works it’s not stupid.
But it is likely un-maintainable
Maintainability is inverse correlated to job security anyway
Enslaved and forced to do maths for us
Fun fact: Lithium is named after the Greek word “lithos”, meaning “stone”. It was named so as it was first found in ores. Lithium is a critical element in batteries. Therefore, it isn’t wrong to say that your magical glass slab sucks energy from magical stones to show you pictures of hot femboys.
Mine just shows me pictures of hot masculine guys. This isn’t a bug, though… It’s a feature.
Alolan golem is a cpu
Wouldn’t it be more like sand or glass instead of rock?
Both are made from rock
Rock and Stone
What’s the difference?
Legally speaking, rocking is more legal than stoning
