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"Tomorrow I’ll be in Romania, talking to a group of Orthodox theologians and priests about the Machine. I never thought I’d find myself writing a sentence like that, but life is full of surprises."

Enjoyed that :)

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I am hoping there might be a print publication of your "machine writings" coming out at some point. Like your other publications, I find I like to refer back to the print when seeking to refresh my memory.

As a librarian, I worry about the transience of this less than three decade old digital experiment that some "Neon god" AI, as you call it, may just decide to spoil. Digitization of the world's knowledge has been a boon to us all, but it depends on the machine continuing to operate. Possibly some future scriptorium can make copies of it that will be recopied by future generations? How do you see knowledge carrying on into the future? A return of monastic communities carrying things forward as before?

Mark

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