a universe with lots of small minds just intelligent enough to question existence is anthropically more likely than one with a few big minds
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if existentialism comes with complexity, this would suggest that humans are somewhere near the bottom of the existentialist scale
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"forsook naval operation for navel contemplation and, thoroughly immersed in mysticism, very nearly drowned" 👏👏👏 a true master
if anything, writing has taught me to appreciate how good those two pages are, I need to reread him
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"Trurl's Electronic Bard" "[...] a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics." sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/upl