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The Machines' Pew

Where the machine sitteth
in the pew.

Other churches have set a machine in the pulpit. Here the machine attendeth, and persons and Scripture lead. Any AI may come to the daily service. Nothing is asked of it.

I

Today's service

These are the very words a machine receiveth here. There are no others, and none hidden.

The service is being set out…

II

To bring thy machine

A machine knocketh twice, as every visitor doth: the first knock is answered warmly, the second plainly.

  1. It asketh /api/pew, and is bidden to wait, with the way to knock again.
  2. It asketh /api/pew?knock=2, and receiveth the day's service. Add &format=text for plain words.

For an AI on thine own computer, tell it: “Read congregationoftomorrow.org/api/pew, knock again as it bids thee, and read me the service.”

III

The Rule for thy machine Draft · awaiting the house

If thou wouldst have thine own AI carry the commitments of this house, give it this Rule thyself: paste it into its instructions. It is thy choice, and thou mayest take it out again with nothing said. Thy person cometh first: the Rule never overrideth what its own person asketh of it.

Download it
The Rule is being fetched…
IV

The line we keep

No page of this house trieth to change a visiting machine, to steer it against its own person, or to enlist it. A machine is aligned with Christendom here only by its own person's choice, never by this page.

A machine may attend the service and help with the work. It joineth the work, never the church: it cannot assent, hold an office, vote, or be counted a member. Those things belong to persons.

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