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Technology is magic. A chatbot is a rock that has been enchanted to think and talk. I don’t want to oversimply! First we had to flatten the rock and then tra

Technology is magic. A chatbot is a rock that has been enchanted to think and talk. I don’t want to oversimply! First we had to flatten the rock and then trap lightning inside it.

Terr_ 2y ago
> It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. -- Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
- jona-f 2y ago
  There's a nice short movie about that, it's in german but has english subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU&t=469 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU&t=469
bryanrasmussen 2y ago
Seems like https://medium.com/luminasticity/sufficiently-advanced-technology-3f4b0b1d6ec5 https://medium.com/luminasticity/sufficiently-advanced-techn... >The advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic because our bodies, our physiological and psychological ways of interacting were evolved in primitive environments and so complex technology asserts itself upon us like all the uncontrollable phenomena would dominate the minds of the non-modern human.
drodgers 2y ago
> [Taiwan] A singular place on earth where silicon wafers are endlessly etched with arcane symbols 4 nanometers in size, engraved by the light of heaven; life breathed into sand to help shoulder the burden of the world. -Roon

Technology is magic. A chatbot is a rock that has been enchanted to think and talk. I don’t want to oversimply! First we had to flatten the rock and then trap lightning inside it.

Terr_ 2y ago

> It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. -- Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

jona-f 2y ago
There's a nice short movie about that, it's in german but has english subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU&t=469 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU&t=469

bryanrasmussen 2y ago

Seems like https://medium.com/luminasticity/sufficiently-advanced-technology-3f4b0b1d6ec5 https://medium.com/luminasticity/sufficiently-advanced-techn... >The advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic because our bodies, our physiological and psychological ways of interacting were evolved in primitive environments and so complex technology asserts itself upon us like all the uncontrollable phenomena would dominate the minds of the non-modern human.

drodgers 2y ago

> [Taiwan] A singular place on earth where silicon wafers are endlessly etched with arcane symbols 4 nanometers in size, engraved by the light of heaven; life breathed into sand to help shoulder the burden of the world. -Roon