“Tasks such as #writing well, #thinking well, and living well are hard, particularly for fallen and fallible creatures. But we gain the competence to meet these challenges responsibly only by careful, effortful #practice. No technological shortcut, no forbidden fruit, will alter this creatural #reality.”

Greg Lloyd
Cory Doctorow
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*It's very sci-fi of me, I admit that, but I've always been charmed by the notion of some lonely Swiss patent-clerk messing around with some tabletop physics gizmo and accidentally destroying the Universe

*How often has that really happened, one wonders idly #reality

*It's very sci-fi of me, I admit that, but I've always been charmed by the notion of some lonely Swiss patent-clerk messing around with some tabletop physics gizmo and accidentally destroying the Universe

*How often has that really happened, one wonders idly #reality