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stavros 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection (2013)

Unfortunately, cataloguing all the knowledge in the world created new knowledge, leading to a sort of Zeno's paradox of cataloguing.

handsclean 7 months ago | [–]

Then they tried to catalogue which knowledge had not yet been catalogued, and it all went to hell.

nephihaha 7 months ago | [–]

I remember Arthur C. Clarke quoting someone saying that the universe was designed to keep scientists and astronomers in work. I liked that.

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