[nopenopenopeno]

Clarks third law or whatever just reminds me of how “progress” is a religion in the liberal west. It’s not an observation but a declaration of some silly standards which are nonsensical to any mind not indoctrinated to the delusions of elite western liberalism. On top of that, it’s also outright pompous.

[thfuran]

Clarke's Third Law is... pompous?

[zdragnar]

I suppose if you read the inverse of the law, there's a tenuous thread connected to the notion that progress is a necessary step to disabusing our illusions of nature and how the world works. The risk is both assuming you know more than you do because you "believe in science", as well as devaluing things in the natural world because they do not fit into whatever notion of advancement is in vogue.

We often see valuable discoveries come from some area that was previously overlooked. There's not enough there to demand any sort of cute phrase but just enough to discourage the notion that a society with some advancements over another has nothing to learn from the other either.