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(alethepedia) adlai: at the risk of outing myself permanently, in asciilifeform's eyes, as a crackpot daemonologist: the "alethiometer" is a plausible device, first described in science fiction, that uses hard randomness to enable divine intervention, as limited by the operator's imaginitiveness.
(alethepedia) adlai: !s alethiometer
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-15 17:23:32 thimbronion: asciilifeform: just referring to adlai's constant mockery of my having an "alethiometer."
(therealbitcoin) snsabot: (alethepedia) 2020-12-15 thimbronion: asciilifeform: just referring to adlai's constant mockery of my having an "alethiometer."
(alethepedia) thimbronion: asciilifeform: just referring to adlai's constant mockery of my having an "alethiometer."
(alethepedia) adlai: often, not much; beyond the trilemal [i.e., in the style of that guy who prefilled your alethiometer before it even existed] treatment of writing as an exercise in vocabulary.