Discworld Rules - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions
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And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
Discworld Rules And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists Venkatesh Rao Mar 08, 2025 233 21 54 Share The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates . Chat thread here. We will discuss this the week of March 24th. The Lord of the Rings is a great story, but I have to say, I’ve never understood the strange hold it seems to have on the imagination of a particular breed of technologists. As a story it’s great. It is pure fantasy of course (in the Chiang’s Law sense of being about special people rather than strange rules), full of Chosen Ones doing
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