@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
Post #3624874
2026-07-06 09:12 UTC
@marshray@infosec.exchange @petealexharris@mastodon.scot - hmm, now I really want to know why we have that archetype. Given that we have it, it's not so surprising that when we got the ability to make it real, we did. But why were we so interested in all-powerful trickster genies long before we could really create them?
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot 2026-07-06 09:28
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @marshray@infosec.exchange Maybe every time we met another group of humans or other hominins who thought differently about the world, negotiations with them were complicated.