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yo. you have been dropping some bangers 🙏🏾🫡 🤝
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This sounds like fiction and the author reminds me of Italo Calvino‘s writing. Absolutely beautiful!
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most of this is really lovely but is it just me or does it start to get weirdly repetitive around "Perhaps the Bedouin remembered no spirit at all" in a way that feels either like a weird editing mistake or like an LLM wrote the rest of it? maybe this was intentional?
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Apr 27Edited
I wonder if this is a scrying that lets us see our own future. Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death and EM Forster The Machine Stops. A remarkable piece of largely unsung history.
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I had the same thought, Postman's book in particular came to mind.
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I’m such a sucker for this kind of piece. Wonderful job.
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I loved this. Great writing!
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♥️
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Great verisimilitude.
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RIP Borges
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wonderful piece. we need more of this kind of reading.
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What a stunning piece, again. The game seems to be communicating Thomas Sowell's quote: 'There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.'
More importantly, it highlights again that men will amuse themselves to death if not grounded (or rather elevated?) by a higher order. A life without transcendence leads to an intricate but ultimately dead-end state.
Also, what a fascinating example of a cognitive ratchet: expanding the mind to the next level systems thinking.
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Is this real? Did this really happen? I very much enjoyed it
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Really trying to find a record that has all the rules so I can play with a friend
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Be careful - apparently it’s quite a dangerous game! Or a parable…
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I don't think so! But the game mentioned in the story might be Mancala from Kitāb al-Aghānī (which he references here).
This is a fascinating and strange thing! I enjoyed it so much. I'd love to hear more about how you chose the images, wrote some of the quotes, and decided which scholars to attribute them to.
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Beautiful
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