Most of the data we’re interested in is on things that we’ve made up at some point. We make the rules, we can change the rules, hopefully we mostly agree on the current rules, but often don’t. Sapiens has a good bit about that, if I remember right.
“Some members of [the data] community have been so overwhelmed by the success of a certain technology for processing data that they have confused this technology with the natural semantics of information. They have forgotten any other way to think […] — the mentality of the punched card.”
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They once declared that a car is the same car as long as the engine block remains the same, regardless of literally any other modifications.
Dang.