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[zwol]

Clarke's third law should be read normatively, not descriptively.

Discuss.

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[xorphus.livejournal.com]

Or "if and only if," maybe.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

You can still read that descriptively. rysmiel's formulation downthread is rather more what I had in mind. (My original thought was along the lines of If your technology is still distinguishable from magic, you're not done advancing it.)