[ExI] Man’s Greatest Achievement – Nikola Tesla on Akashic engineering and the future of humanity

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2015-12-03 20:12, Michael Butler wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 2015 3:18 AM, "Anders Sandberg" <anders at aleph.se 
> <mailto:anders at aleph.se>> wrote:
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> > Can you fail at destiny?
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> Succinct and probing question, Anders. May I quote with attribution? 
> It's a fairly straightforward antinomy, but I know a few Slavs, at 
> least, who might get a kick out of it.
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Sure! It does have a Slav ring to it. It is a bit like the Swedish 
semi-joke expression: "It is never too late to give up."


> > Yes, philosophers are annoying :-)
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> Nah, just "differently-pleasing". :)
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That is also quotable. Or quote-apt, as a philosopher would say.

(Then we get to a big debate in metaquotation theory about whether being 
quote-apt is an intrinsic property of a proposition, or a disposition, 
or just our folk-theory of the complex relationship between quoter and 
quotation.)

-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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