Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 30, 2020So I just watched the stand-back-and-stand-by clip. He trotted it out so casually makes me think it’s a conventional turn of phrase in some circles? Sounds vaguely military.11328
Venkatesh Rao@vgrI think this counts as deterministic terror rather than stochastic3:05 AM · Sep 30, 20205 Retweets42 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 30, 2020Replying to @vgrThe phrase is a superposition of ridiculous and scary and we won’t know which until the wave function collapses.1132