[SEQ RERUN] Explain/Worship/Ignore?
Today’s post, Explain/Worship/Ignore? was originally published on 02 September 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
When you encounter something you don’t understand, you have three options: to seek an explanation, knowing that that explanation will itself require an explanation; to avoid thinking about the mystery at all; or to embrace the mysteriousness of the world and worship your confusion.
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I’m surprised it was never mentioned that the Explains might go in a loop.
I personally seem to get to “math” from everywhere, including if I press it on “math”, but that might just be having hit Worship by mistake somewhere. Either way, I don’t expect an explanation for math before the singularity.
Missing and odd assortment of letters.