[unkulunkulu]

The whole possibility of it.

If you put yourself in a position “one foot from success”, then you will be able to devalue any achievement this way.

If you see from the point of “empty universe”, you will see magic everywhere. This is the real magic.

[yzydserd]

Personally, I think magic and miracle are terrible words to describe astounding technological achievements. The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement. If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning progress to luck or providence.

[unkulunkulu]

> The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement.

You basically say that “there are no miracles, this is just an engineered system that we can reason about and study its parts”?

> If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning progress to luck or providence.

Magic is not luck or providence, it is about pure appreciation of something that could have not existed, but here it is in your hands.

Yes, thanks to the effort and creativity of a lot of people, but without the “appreciating like a kid”, only dissecting the thing to “parts” might miss something. That was my point