If you have to ask, you probably won't live to enjoy it

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If you have to ask, you probably won't live to enjoy it is a term of art among transdimensional corporation promoters and Extract of Radium enthusiasts.

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The first known appearance of the phrase was a tweet by author and known fabulist Karl Jones on October 6, 2020:

It's a question of sufficient computational power — say, fifty terawatt-hours, rounded to the nearest five hundred years.

Alternately, you can bribe or coerce Maxwell's Demon.

Either way — "If you have to ask, you probably won't live to enjoy it."

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