in hindsight, all of this is indirectly tied in https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me/post/3lqi4rgpkzc2a
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Tim Kellogg
great post about complexity in distributed systems software
The Bitter Lesson makes the same argument as Dijkstra, except that it concludes that you absolutely should focus on methods that increase complexity over increasing simplicity (my take)
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
The Bitter Lesson makes the same argument as Dijkstra, except that it concludes that you absolutely should focus on methods that increase complexity over increasing simplicity (my take)
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
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And it raises the question - could a human achieve enlightenment by consuming enough undifferentiated internet content slurry?
Seriously though, yeah all of this has really interesting implications, I think I’m going to write it up