Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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@FlohEinstein I fix computers and sometimes when a customer looks at me and say something like "how have you fixed that?"
I wiggle my pen and say "just shake the magic wand abd say the magic words and it's fixed"Not many people laugh.
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@NathanMurdock I still strongly suspect that there is a finite amount of intelligence assigned per planet. We are already thinning it out with the number of humans. No amount of killing dolphins and apes will save us from the dwindling supply, and now we created AI...
@FlohEinstein that is pure insight. As the population skyrockets, intelligence per capita begins to quickly degrade. We attempt emergency compensation through artificial means which serves only to exacerbate the problem. This is fully Planet of the Apes but, I'm just plug my own micro-fiction:
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@FlohEinstein And those of us able to fix these indistinguishable problems are wizards. I guess magic is still alive and well.
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@hypolite @FlohEinstein was just thinking how to describe it to someone 300 years ago heh.
@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Fair enough, I've been jumpy recently as people have more frequently attributed thought to computers because of the newfangled natural language interface. -
@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Fair enough, I've been jumpy recently as people have more frequently attributed thought to computers because of the newfangled natural language interface.
@hypolite @FlohEinstein completely understandable.
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@FlohEinstein And those of us able to fix these indistinguishable problems are wizards. I guess magic is still alive and well.
@mrgrumpymonkey @FlohEinstein It's funny to me every time a fantasy author tries to rationalize magic, as there wouldn't be any wizard in such a world, but "ether engineers", "flux technicians" and "mana managers". -
@FlohEinstein "It was DNS"
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@FlohEinstein
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. -
@FlohEinstein I have a more (contra)positive take: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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@FlohEinstein Generative systems are necromancy.
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@FlohEinstein aka printers.
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@FlohEinstein la maldición de las impresoras
Como solía decir mi hermana: "La maldad intrínseca de los objetos inanimados".
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That is beautiful and way too true and is going into my quotes file.
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@FlohEinstein My god.
That's *deep*.
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@FlohEinstein YES
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@FlohEinstein A probably-misremembered quote of an old IBM engineer: "Of course I believe in miracles. Without them, computers wouldn't work at all."
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@FlohEinstein See mysterious physical and mental ailments, biology and psychology being the ultimate complex systems (although economics is also a contender).
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@drwho of course, my utterings are CC-BY-SA
@FlohEinstein Thank you kindly.
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@FlohEinstein Thank you kindly.
@drwho how could I say no to the Doctor?
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