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The MOST Advanced Technology
Arthur C. Clarke famously said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I would say that this is perhaps only an intermediary stage, and that what happens upon the accomplishment of the MOST advanced state of technology is that it becomes mundane to the point of almost being unnoticeable. In fact, it may even Continue reading
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Ascetic Laboring is Coool
I’m re-reading a small book by a famous Russian Orthodox priest that lived in the 1800s, and in one part of it, a fellow named Nicholas Motovilov implied that there was some idea going around in 19th century Russia that laboring as a monk was fashionable. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The Continue reading
Unsupported Speculation 