• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    Okay, but how does that definition not precisely describe a tool?

    It sounds like it very much is a tool, in the exact usual sense of the word.

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      2 years ago

      I guess they think tools are just things like pliers, wrenches, grinders etc. without realizing they themselves are the real tools they made along the way

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        2 years ago

        They were guinea pigs. Their “tooliness” is just a side effect of the experiment.