Don't forget the sigils. If you don't align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won't work
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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.
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!?!
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
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.
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!
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
Nope. It was Clarke.
Foundation turned science to religion which is essentially using Clarke's laws but drawn to it's extreme.
Essentially faith + magic = miracle ≈ science + religion
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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 of~~ print on it.
Sounds a lot like magic and alchemy to me.
Don't forget, we also need to shine special light onto the rock
Not just melted, the rock is first dissolved and distilled. Then it is melted.
Then gassed repeatedly.
Rocks + magic smoke.
And sometimes the magic smoke escapes, which kills the rock.
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
I see you've been training the other departments at my workplace on how to ensure you can't get fired by refusing to document anything whatsoever.
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.
Wouldn't it be more like sand or glass instead of rock?
Silica dioxide can occur geologically but if it's not from quartz it's not a rock it's a mineral iirc.
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