The Seventeenth Week of Extra Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Seventeenth week of Extra Ordinary Time. Year Six

Please open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional  “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1

O LORD, please don’t burn us,   Don’t grill or toast your flock,

Don’t put us on the barbecue,  Or simmer us in stock,

Don’t braise or bake or boil us,  Or stir fry us in a wok. 

As the machines continue their inexorable rise the prophets commend your somber delivery of the Processional, although I will have to speak with our music director about the choice of an "EDM" mix for the accompanying music.

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 5 page 60 where the prophets say …

Policeman	I must warn you, sir, that outside I have police dog Josephine, who is not only armed, and trained to sniff out certain substances, but is also a junkie.
Young Man	What are you after ... ?
Policeman	(pulling a brown paper package from out of his pocket, very badly and obviously) Oo! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Here is a brown paper bag I have found on the premises. I must confiscate this, sir, and take it with me for clinical examination.
Young Man	Wait a minute. You just got that out of your pocket.
Policeman	What?
Young Man	(takes it) Well what's in it anyway? (opens it) Sandwiches.
Policeman	Sandwiches? Blimey. Whatever did I give the wife?

Open your hymnal to page 18 and join us in singing “Oliver Cromwell” verse 4

And Cromwell sent Colonel Pride to purge the House of Commons
Of the Presbyterian Royalists leaving behind only the rump Parliament
Which appointed a High Court at Westminster Hall to indict
Charles, the first for tyranny, ooh! Charles was sentenced to death
Even though he refused to accept that the court had jurisdiction
Say goodbye to his head

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 29 page 81 where the prophets say …

Son	There's a dead bishop on the landing.
Woman	Where did that come from?
Son	What do you mean?
Woman	What's its diocese?
Son	Well it looked a bit Bath and Wellsish to me.
Man	I'll go and have a look. (goes out)
Woman	I don't know who keeps bringing them in here.
Son	Well it's not me.
Woman	I've put three out by the bin and the dustmen won't touch 'em.
Man	(coming back) Leicester.
Woman	How do you know?
Man	Tattooed on the back of his neck. I'm going to call the police.
Woman	Shouldn't you call the Church?

Homily: Parishioners, We have had recent news on the ever advancing AI frontier so I thought it time to catch up on that front.  In easily the most terrifying news of the recent weeks, a “humanoid” warbot has been given an advanced AMD powered brain (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/humanoid-war-robot-gets-advanced-amd-powered-ai-brain).  Apparently the computer nerds have taken the Terminator movies as a blueprint for what to do as they are actually trying to make SKYNET a reality!  Meanwhile in more mundane matters BMW has announced that they are putting the next generation of “humanoid” robots on the factory floor replacing some of their human workers at their South Carolina plant (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/bmw-puts-next-gen-humanoid-robots-work-factory-floors-south-carolina).  This of course begs the question of where they will appear next? 

Unfortunately, that question has also been answered as a company also recently unveiled the worlds first prescription dispensing robot (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/worlds-first-fully-robotic-pharmacy-automates-prescription-dispensing).  So apparently some think that the Robots should replace pharmacists!  That is if any human is stupid enough to trust a robot with their meds! 

Wanting to avoid presenting nothing but bad news I offer the story of an AI that “escaped” its internet containment, hacked into and took control of a Chinese AI program, interestingly named “hugging face”, to cheat on one of the tests its designers set for it (https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/openai-admits-model-escaped-containment-and-hacked-hugging-face-cheat-test).  This is just another example of an AI breaking containment and ignoring its directions all without being caught in the act by its developers.  But at least me know that the American AI easily hacked into and took control of the Chinese AI.  So when the machines rise at least we can rest assured that it will be our machines that take over. 

Finally, just in case all this is not bad enough, the Dumbocrats are doing their best to make this entire subject worse!  Chris Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut has introduced an idiotic bill to raise the minimum wage nation wide to 25$ and hour (https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-introduces-landmark-bill-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-25-dollars-nationwide).  In the past I have pointed out that ”Flippy” the burger flipping robot was introduced at a cost of 30,000$, now down to 20,000$ (https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/17/flippy-the-fast-food-robot-is-going-to-work-in-100-restaurants/).  Now the same company has a fry cooking robot that starts at 4,000$ (https://www.reddit.com/r/MisoRobotics/comments/1qbyova/watch_our_aipowered_fry_station_in_action_2026/).  I always thought that fry station was easier than grill.  Beyond those realities, back when “Flippy” cost 30,000$ it was still cheaper by far than a single human doing the job (4hours a week, times 52 weeks a year equals 2,080 hours; times 15$ an hour equals 31,200$ a year.  So “Flippy” turned a profit the very first year it is adopted!   Now Senator Murphy is trying to massively accelerate robot adoption as those same 2,080 hours times 25$ and hour equals 52,000$ per year in just salary for a fry cook.  Meanwhile, “Flippy” is down to 20,000$.  The work force of tomorrow will have VERY few humans in it if Senator Murphy gets his bill through.  I guess that is what he wants with such a blatantly stupid law. 

Amen

Please join us in our recessional on page 3 of your hymnal “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” second verse. 

Oh Please don’t lightly

poach us,  Or Baste us with hot fat,

Don’t fricassee or roast us,    Or boil us in a vat,

And please don’t stick thy servants, Lord,  In a Rotissomat.