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n8chz ⒶⒺ

@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.

James Endres Howell

@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.

akkartik.name/about

BigEatie

@james

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?

OddOpinions5

@james

Great blog post
iirc, George Orwell had an essay where he asked, how do you *know the earth is round and the best evidence he had (iirc circa 1940) was that boats and planes traveled thousands of miles and wound up at the correct spot, which implied that the navigation model was correct

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