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Comment by tclancy

14 hours ago

It’s a reference to Bernard Shaw, who once said that if we ever created a truly artificial mind it would be inside a turtle’s shell. Sturgill Simpson covered the track on his seminal work, Xeno’s Paradox.

Might be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member.

Full story in the book

  • This guy remembers what I thought I was saying. In my defense I stole the whole thing from Stephen King’s It which I read … forty years ago, that can’t be accurate. Let me sort out my instruments and get back to you.