Comment by MrMormon on Failing to Learn from History · 2012-04-05T02:09:08.369Z · LW · GW

Or perhaps he wanted to leave his audience with a certain effect, like wonder, hope, and dreaminess? That's how I see the future sometimes, when I have no idea what tech will boom and bust.

Comment by MrMormon on Semantic Stopsigns · 2012-04-03T05:45:03.569Z · LW · GW

Sometimes, the question "why?" is meaningless. If "all chickens came from eggs, and all eggs came from chickens" is a premise, that is the "why". Asking the why of the why is a tautology.