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@akkartik Wow. I love your appeal to Ivan Illich to observe that software is like—mining: extraction from externalities to decreasing marginal returns. Such an insightful statement of the problem. New blog post: Just a theory: the flat earth vs. evolution https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-06-just-a-theory-the-flat-earth-vs-evolution.html Curious, do you think something like Occam's Razor belongs in that list of what makes a successful theory? I feel like you can always add the analogue of epicycles and have an equally good theory, no? Great blog post |
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@james I'm pissed off by nontent, but I never asked for the Internet to be filled with content. I'm not asking for a higher nontent to content ratio. I'm asking for protocols, not platforms.