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"You can do magic by hand, without computers, but magic performed by ritual without finite state automata in the loop -- calculating machines, in other words -- tends to be haphazard, unreliable, uncontrollable, prone to undesirable side effects, and difficult to repeat. It also tends to fuck with causality, the logical sequence of events, in a most alarming way."

-- Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

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