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Computers run on social facts, not mathematics.pic.twitter.com/IPPG8Ia32f
Computers are usable through canonical isomorphisms to other systems?
the isomorphisms are, of course, socially determined, and those determinations get embedded in the logic of the program
Yes; and that’s most of the job, I think. But we don’t have any detailed account of how this works, afaik
Of how which part works? The embedding itself seems pretty straightforwards.
Well, ideally, we’d want to just say what the other system is, and have that be executable! And I think this may be feasible.
is this different than what we do now / somehow immune to the problems inherent in schematizing?
Your second point is a very good one… although perhaps making the schema explicit makes it easier to locate representation vs reality bugs
Re first, “executable specifications” has been a holy grail for decades, but I think is more nearly feasible than generally supposed
This has been on my “ought to think about harder someday” list since about 1990 so I’m probably out to lunch; but it doesn’t seem that hard
Thanks btw for the falsehoods collection. I hadn’t seen before. I was planning to use pathologies of postal addresses in this post already!
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