arundelo comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: arundelo 24 July 2013 04:26:58AM 8 points [-]
Comment author: SaidAchmiz 24 July 2013 04:36:31AM 4 points [-]

Interesting! Thanks. I was totally not aware of that alternate definition.

Comment author: RobbBB 24 July 2013 06:31:53AM *  8 points [-]

Latin sæculum ("era, generation, century") came to be associated with the ever-changing human, political, worldly order, as contrasted with the divine one. Secular time moves in circles; divine time spins in place.

Comment author: komponisto 26 July 2013 10:56:24AM *  2 points [-]

Compare temporal, which is also used to mean "worldly" (as opposed to divine).