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It's such a dream state of JavaScript, that people spent countless of time trying to structure these new web applications in a way so that when one function fails for one button or whatever, it doesn't break the entire client-side view, because that'd be horrible.

So what did the frameworks do? Of course wrap the entire application in one big try/catch, that then changes the entire page as soon as there is any error, instead of presenting users with the information that did load properly. Talk about undoing what the platform and language gives you for free...

Seems to render perfectly with NoScript blocking all scripts, even with images showing.

> Sounds like the big social media companies.

I agree. Looking at the history of tobacco companies, oxycontin and Meta, I will not be surprised if the AI companies will follow the money.

> but there are plenty of human sycophants as well

That's besides the point. This is about how AI induces psychosis and mental problems on scale. Also let's stop this constant humans-vs-ai false dichotomy - it will never be the same, no matter how much the ai boosters yearn for it!

Hail Eris!

Technically, all adult Catholics can become Pope. But realistically it's just one of the cardinals, which means you need to become a bishop first, which means you need to become a priest first, which means you need to be celibate (x). This guy has a wife, according to the article, so he cannot become a Pope.

(x) this is technically not true for some Anglican orders that later became Catholics? Maybe? (I never remember the rules of the ordinariate.) So maybe he could first become a priest in Anglican Church, then switch to Catholicism, then become a bishop, then a Cardinal, then a Pope? It's a long shot though.

edit: ahhh the married priests in Ordinariate cannot become bishops. So he would need to have first his marriage annulled I guess.

Correct. In fact, even to be a bishop you have to state as part of the ritual that you do not wish to be a bishop. (Many do of course.)

(Am off to read the article now. :) )

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Not the point of the story at all. Read before commenting.

Sure, anyone and everyone can apply, to basically anything. Sometimes you can even get into stuff they didn't think they accepted applicants to. Most of the times you get ignored though.

We did...but it was few here and there. The LLMs are making it massive and impacting people on a huge scale.

> correlation does not necessarily imply causation

I feel like you're missing what you're replying to, why are you saying this? The article is about a person who "lost grip on reality", no one is saying LLMs is turning people into pope-wannabees as far as I can tell, you're reacting against something no one claimed.

This is something new. Delusions were around before, certainly, but LLM offers a round the clock potential for psychological conditioning, which would not normally be possible without sustained attention by a group of people.

Wow, I just found Jesus Mouse's social networking pages (aka Pan Ophidian)! Definitely him, checks out, I was not tripping.

https://www.facebook.com/panthemystic/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GjcUCQxTHA

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-unexpected-occurrenc...

Pan Ophidian. Studied at Collegium Ad Spiritum Sanctum Soledad. Can't QUITE say it was unexpected, Simmy, but here you go.

Luxembourg, as a guest of a friend of the Royal Family of Luxembourg, Emile Lefort, who I'd met sometime earlier in a Haight Street cafe in San Francisco.

I'd introduced myself as Jesus Christ, a year or two earlier, and he subsequently wrote stories about me as Jesus Mouse, being that I happened to be in my elegant Mickey Mode at the time, nose, ears, tail. Captivated, you might say. But not almost QUITE a true believer.

Enough so, yes, that before leaving Luxembourg, he did try to connect me to Winona Ryder, being a close friend of her father's, to propose a theatrical world revolution/renaissance bid I'm always been working on. But the closest he could get to saying Guess Who, was to text the Subject of the email, "Regarding JEEZ."

I surmised that I'd have to take it from there, if there turned out to be a there, but good enough!

[Reminded me of my picture in Mouse Regalia, in full color, in the Glastonbury Herald a year earlier, with the caption, "Cheese! --- the Son of God."]

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This deserves some kind of Vonnegut award.

Found Richard Dawkin's alt account

Faith and psychosis are not the same thing.

> he believes that he was chosen for that role by an invisible man in the sky.

One thing is clear, you should not be sent to the HN gulag simply because you don't understand what you're talking about. Me and others realize you don't know how the pope is chosen, but damn if I'm not willing to die for your right to state something that is utterly wrong.