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nfriedly · 2017-02-04 21:31:19

Hah, yea, same here. He almost explains it in the book, but not quite.

epgui | karma 4307 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2022-02-28 19:26:50

Fair enough! I'm not familiar with the book.

lovich | karma 7762 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2018-03-02 20:58:41

Ah I hadnt realized, thought OP meant it was in the book. I agree with your assessment then

vlunkr | karma 5913 | avg karma 3.28 · | 2022-09-25 15:32:48

The author mentions this as well. I don’t know how I’ve never connected those dots.

refrigerator | karma 2261 | avg karma 4.81 · | 2014-02-08 17:29:02+00:00

Yeah I do see what you mean, I should have either gone the whole hog or not at all, I actually read that book a couple of years ago as it turns out!

phonebucket | karma 1654 | avg karma 5.01 · | 2020-11-06 09:24:15+00:00

I also thought it was about the book and almost skipped this until reading your comment.

flak48 | karma 1179 | avg karma 4.97 · | 2020-08-07 20:03:24+00:00

I had read the book, but not the Wikipedia article.

sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2011-03-13 23:40:14+00:00

Sorry, which book? Feeling like I missed an in-joke here...

brnt | karma 5750 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2021-06-08 21:23:32+00:00

Have you read the book? What part was not clear to you?

pavel_lishin | karma 46523 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2023-12-17 19:17:45

Which part is that? I don't recall this bit being in the book.

yoodenvranx | karma 2614 | avg karma 4.77 · | 2017-09-29 06:19:56

I read that book like 10 times and I never got that. Thanks for the hint!

deepnotderp | karma 4485 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2017-01-30 05:36:12

Haha, there's no intuition behind these. You should still read the book, but because of other reasons.

treesknees | karma 1604 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2022-04-08 15:56:33

Aha, that may explain my confusion. It's been years since I've read it, I'll have to dig it out and see which version I have.

cocktailpeanuts | karma 5438 | avg karma 4.22 · | 2017-07-22 21:22:50+00:00

I think the best explanation is that you missed rest of the chapters! :)

wazoox | karma 8647 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2023-03-24 05:26:03

No he said it while talking about the book, but I don't think it's in the book.

robswc | karma 1720 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2023-03-03 21:12:40

Oh, really nice takeaway! That does make a lot of sense, I'll have to re-read it.

I just remember getting very close to the end and thinking I had some copy with tons of missing pages or something because there was no way to have some conclusion with the remaining pages haha.

With this in mind, it will probably make much more sense.

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mrfusion | karma 16153 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2016-03-16 14:05:51

Care to explain? I didn't really get anything like that from the book.

Nurw | karma 23 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2024-03-27 20:49:17

Haha, yeah, I am reading the book these days, and I clearly remember thinking that those effects seemed really exaggerated.

hitonagashi | karma 142 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2010-06-25 10:22:09

In a later book, they also reveal the question...kinda.

joekrill | karma 2029 | avg karma 4.15 · | 2017-01-13 17:29:23+00:00

Ah got it -- I thought maybe I missed something in there! Was a great book, for sure.