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You should read Anathem or Permutation City some time.
by nitrogen 6y ago
You should read Anathem or Permutation City some time.
- aeneasmackenzie 6y agoWhat will he get from Permutation City? It's a work of fiction, entirely supposition.
- xwolfi 6y agoBut it helps you realize there's nothing obvious about reality. We can question everything, even that maybe we're experiencing reality in a time based manner due to a fluke but theres actually no evolution - we're a static map of space time, and us idiots pretend we evolve and change direction.
- websitejanitor 6y agoI have read Anathem. It's math as occult magic riffing on harry potter.
- nitrogen 6y agoPretty much anything can be dismissed with an adlib of the form "It's [boring subject] as [thing I don't like] riffing on [some other thing]." It never captures the nuance, or why X as Y riffing on Z might still be interesting or enlightening.