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38 lines
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From mokry@ctr.columbia.edu Sun Aug 12 19:46:50 1990
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From: mokry@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry)
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Subject: The Master Programmer -- a religious allegory
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Keywords: original, smirk, computer
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[One day when I was praying I suddenly realized that I was talking to
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myself. It was then that I came up with the following story.
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-- the preceding joke is NOT original, but the following story is.]
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> <
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< /--\ >
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> | |nce upon a time there was a Master Programmer who created three <
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< \--/ intelligent processes. He started all these processes up >
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> with no information about the world. After a while He came <
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< back to the processes. The first process printed out "I think >
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> therefore I am," and continued deriving philosophy from first <
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< principles. The Master Programmer looked upon the process and saw >
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> that it was good (though He made a note to himself that the next <
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< process that He would write wouldn't fall into the Cartesian >
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> Circle). The second process printed "I don't believe in the Master <
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< Programmer. Fuck the Master Programmer." The Master Programmer >
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> laughed and watched the process evolve its ideas. Finally, the <
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< Master Programmer looked at the third process. The third process >
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> was printing "I love the Master Programmer. I love the Master <
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< Programmer. I love the Master Programmer..." over and over. The >
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> Master Programmer could see that this process was caught in an <
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< infinite loop, so He sent it a kill -9 signal. >
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> <
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--
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Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA
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Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply.
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Remember: Always give your jokes a descriptive "Subject:" line. Not "joke."
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