Admonition and Aside Demos
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
Example
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Ordering matter was the sole endeavour of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing.
That is the problem with ignorance: You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
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The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well. In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Note
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. I will allow my fear to pass through me and around me and when it is gone, I will turn and look, and only myself will remain.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Tip
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.
The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.
Question
The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
She's far in her mind, deep in her own thoughts, the air on her wings feels amazing, she is swimming, rolling through the air as if it's water.
Warning
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers.
Danger
As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
If Earth was ever to be saved, its people would have to be taught to believe in reason.
Floating Left / Right
Example
That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
She's far in her mind, deep in her own thoughts, the air on her wings feels amazing, she is swimming, rolling through the air as if it's water. The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c.
Tip
That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. The ship of theory could set sail on tides of mathematical grandeur and hope alone, but only data could fill its sails.
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What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
Woah!
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. I will allow my fear to pass through me and around me and when it is gone, I will turn and look, and only myself will remain.
What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We are forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
Do This!
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
Can you do this?
The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
She's far in her mind, deep in her own thoughts, the air on her wings feels amazing, she is swimming, rolling through the air as if it's water.
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Do This!
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.
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- Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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- I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you're not saying is important.
Example
That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
print("Hello, World!")
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S0[ ]
S1((S1))
S2(((S2)))
S3(((S3)))
S4(((S4)))
S0 --> S1
S1 --A--> S2
S1 --B--> S3
S2 --A--> S1
S2 --B--> S3
S3 --A--> S1
S3 --B--> S3
S3 --C--> S3
S3 --D--> S4
class S0 startTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not; both are equally terrifying. As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one. What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We are forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
In this age of enlightenment, the soothsayer and astrologer flourish; as science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. In this age of enlightenment, the soothsayer and astrologer flourish; as science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.