I know you're just being flip, but the benefits of "thoughts and prayers" isn't solely to ask some imaginary being for help.

The benefit is that it directs the attention of the community at large towards the problem. This raises awareness with the hope that those with the means to help will do so.

Its an anti-fragile method of asking the community for help without knowing the specifics of how they can help.

actually, now that I think about it, "Thoughts and Prayers" is no different than a "Call for Code" except that it is generalized to all society instead of just software developers.

Never understood why fb implemented a way to send a starbucks gift card on someones bday but refuses to associate a "donate to this charity" button when you pick a disaster filter or "mark yourself safe" or whatever

I don't think that pseudocode would work, I'd be more inclined to use something moral and secure like Rust.

Surely we can encode morality in blockchain

I feel like a trojan that hijacks all existing blockchains and kill them would do more good to climate change than any other idea we could possibly come up with. We are burning an awful amount of electricity on something that's not being used for any practical purpose but only by speculators and "investors".

A permanent, distributed ledger of morals would at least be a nice gift to future historians. Now if only we could establish a correctness proof as well...