Arlo sed: My knowledge about how I conceive of 'tautology' is currently limited to XKCD <http://xkcd.com/703/> and the ensuing discussion <http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56593> [particularly here <http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56593&p=2012943&hilit=703#p2012943>]).
I am rapidly becoming envious of a "generation" (there I said it) who will have the option of saying "everything I know, I learned from XKCD". I'm already guilty of imagining that "everything I know, I learned from Wikipedia". Wikipedia having it's own feeling of being self-generating.
I also appreciate the comparison made here between FRIAM and "the Aerican Empire", though I have no idea what said Empire might be other than a virtual/game world created by a combination of individual genius and the combined imagination of thousands of internet-mediated game play or storytelling.
- Steve
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