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It's pretty futile, but I really enjoy trying to figure out how much of human technology I could have predicted given basic starting knowledge of "organisms with this body will build advanced technology". Like, could I have predicted something like cars? Or clothes? Or stigmas?

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Henry David, M.A. in Economics

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Um. No. Per Popper, predicting a technology is equivalent to inventing the technology.

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I don't mean specifically, I mean generally. Would I have predicted that humans would have ended up using a fast transportation unit thing? Are there any analogues of "system transports things faster" in other fields?

12:36 AM · Oct 11, 2019