(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) 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.