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minus-squareErtebolle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year agoThe tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoNow there’s even less of the original wall.
minus-squareBloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoOnly a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
minus-squareDogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.
The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
Now there’s even less of the original wall.
Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.