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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    1. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 18
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      Andy Matuschak Retweeted Patrick Collison

      If this were a religion—it is, I think!—what would be its hymns?https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1251682994860908546 …

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      Patrick CollisonVerified account @patrickc
      Scientists and engineers, like those listed, are the heroes who will get us out of this mess. Here's to them, to discovery, and to progress. (Build!)
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    2. maran‏ @marannelson Apr 19
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      Replying to @andy_matuschak

      This movement has very little to nothing of the religious in it... it lacks religion's core function: "relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements." It is for precisely this reason that we cannot imagine any of its hymns.

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    3. maran‏ @marannelson Apr 19
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      Replying to @marannelson @andy_matuschak

      This is not meant to disparage the work itself: I stand behind it wholeheartedly!! But there is very little religious function here.

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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Apr 19
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      Replying to @marannelson @andy_matuschak

      I agree. Used humanely, technocracy has many useful effects, but... I don't want to worship either the steam engine or capital.

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      Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 19
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      *nods* Would you say you identify with worshipping the spirit which created those things (and other Works—past, present, future)?

      2:59 PM - 19 Apr 2020
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        2. maran‏ @marannelson Apr 19
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          If we're speaking of something akin to Spirit in the Hegelian sense? The existence of a voracious, irreducible thing in each of us? Indubitably.

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        3. maran‏ @marannelson Apr 19
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          It's a challenging conversation for Twitter (and I'm frankly not very good at this medium) -- but I really appreciate your voicing anything "religious" out loud, and don't mean to disparage it.

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Apr 19
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          Replying to @andy_matuschak @marannelson

          I'm not quite what you mean. Do you mean can-do, optimistic, understanding human spirit? Or do you mean something else, closer to Maran's answer?

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        3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 19
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @marannelson

          Closer to Maran’s answer—the drive to create, to understand, to express, to synthesize, to transcend.

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