Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Indistinguishable doesn’t mean identical. It just means that the observer cannot tell the difference.

    The observer being the one who doesn’t know it is technology is implied by the quote.

    Sometimes brevity is much better than a lot of explanation. To add in a fairly obvious point about this being for the uneducated observer would make it twice as long.

    Edit: To reinforce that it’s the observer, imagine how silly the quote would have been were it to reference all parties. Like, the person who understands that it is tech is going “oooooh, magic!”