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People in the 17th century viewed themselves as fancy clockwork machines, because of course mechanical clocks were the peak of high-tech hype at the time. (Rea
by otabdeveloper4 4y ago
People in the 17th century viewed themselves as fancy clockwork machines, because of course mechanical clocks were the peak of high-tech hype at the time.
(Really what we should be thinking about is information complexity, not facile analogies.)
- sacado2 4y agoAnd in theological arguments back then, god was called "the great watchmaker". Now the question "are we living in a computer simulation?" keeps popping here and there. I wonder what the analogy will be in 400 years.
- quickthrower2 4y agoIn 400 years: "back in the day the meatbags thought they were special"