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Murphy’s like, meh

Jul 22, 2021

I have one hot take in the world and it is this: IIASL is a better version of the thinking presented in GEB. Fight me, nerds.

Yes!!

To me, the sad part is that the thing that makes GEB fun — all the digressions into the same themes in different fields — is exactly what makes it easy to miss the point.

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I mean of course I *love* GEB as a literary work—it's just that IAASL presents the core ideas more clearly (also I think he had advanced them somewhat; there's more there)

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