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by vinnyvichy 692 days ago
good faith or bad faith, doesn't matter; as long as we have the faith that can get skeptics to rewrite their firmware without actual violence

--not DXP

If you open the window some flies will get in

--DXP

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> If you open the window some flies will get in

If enough flies get in, the housecats will be more interested in them than in the pigeons outside?

My certitudes ATM say..

Not much, but Kurt had a thing for amoebas, roughly like beetles in your model??

Then maybe approximate flies as amoebas?

Nice, nice, very nice!
> good faith or bad faith, doesn't matter; as long as we have the faith that can get skeptics to rewrite their firmware without actual violence

I prefer my faiths justified, but if you lack that constraint, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning, and so the Age of Aquarius ought to be rolling around within your ~250 year timeframe?

E.g. this.