My addendum to Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced society is indistinguishable from a state of absolute perversion.
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oh good, so it's not as obvious as I thought :) will write it up sometime
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you tease! But that's fair. I can only expect so much insight porn per day out of ya :-)
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simple example: Taliban sincerely see liberal democracies as fallen, corrupt and depraved. It's not a political posture.
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And err...precisely! It's problematic for sexual minorities. I didn't say "identical" I said "indistinguishable".
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it is most definitely NOT a difference of degree, anymore than words "magic" and "science" are degrees.
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That was Clarke's point. That an extreme diff of degree can appear as diff in kind.
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As with orig, statement is relative to society you're in. For you, I'm talking, say, most advanced society of 2200.
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