pwrfrk Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 A little while back there was a discussion about God, intelligence and I forget what else. There was a couple of quotes used, and I not only can I not find the thread but I cannot find or remember much about the quotes. One was something about the greater the distance, education/technology-wise, between two groups would make the more advanced group appear God-like...or something like that. The other was comparing more advanced technology to magic. Does anyone remember these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Here's a few threads for you to look through: https://thirdhour.org/forums/search/?&q="sufficiently advanced"&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mores Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, mordorbund said: Here's a few threads for you to look through: https://thirdhour.org/forums/search/?&q="sufficiently advanced"&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy @pwrfrk, I took a look at some of the search results from Mordor's post. There were some interesting variants that just don't work. Arthur C. Clarke's original was: Quote any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Magic. Not God. However, when we're talking about someone with a sufficiently LOW level of technological understanding and a sufficiently LOW level of understanding God, then anything can be mistaken for anything else that one does not understand. Edited April 23, 2019 by Mores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unixknight Posted April 25, 2019 Report Share Posted April 25, 2019 On 4/23/2019 at 12:14 PM, Mores said: However, when we're talking about someone with a sufficiently LOW level of technological understanding and a sufficiently LOW level of understanding God, then anything can be mistaken for anything else that one does not understand. Which is why we have cargo cults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mores Posted April 25, 2019 Report Share Posted April 25, 2019 28 minutes ago, unixknight said: Which is why we have cargo cults. I had never heard of them. Wow! Yeah. That's about right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwrfrk Posted April 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Ah, yes. Cargo cults. Courtesy of WW2 in the Pacific. Cultures worshipping their flying god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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