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Heh, it's funny that you first put it in the LW/OB quotes section, because that's actually kind of similar to an out-of-context quote I excerpted from Eliezer Yudkowsky here.
I don't believe in the supernetural. There can be knowledge for which we do not possess the Google keywords, but to speak of knowledge that cannot be Googled even in principle is nonsense.
What of Göögle's theorem?
And here I was trying to fit in a joke about the Fitch-Church knowability paradox.
Not familiar with that. *Goes to look that up, worshiping at the Fitch Church of Google*
And there you have your joke. :)
...said Achilles to his friend Mr Tortoise.
Roger Federer knows a hell of a lot about how to play tennis; I can't imagine any meaningful way of indexing and searching that knowledge.
And as long as you acknowledge that this is a limitation of your own imagination (and abilities) and not that of the universe it is not nonsensical.