On Difficulty http://www.xenosystems.net/on-difficulty/ ('Unnecessary obscurity' can be hard to pin down.)
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@_Hurlock_ @NIOReaction "Needless obscurity' is by definition useless. The question is: how do we decide when difficulty is 'unnecessary'?
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@_Hurlock_ @NIOReaction The assumption I vehemently resist is that difficulty is unnecessary essentially.
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@soapjackal It follows from an extremely naive confidence in the epistemological competence of natural language.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal Bitcoin architecture is trustless, because verbal promises count for nothing within the system. ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@soapjackal If not THE future, it's a significant part of the future. Languages are legacy codes. ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@_Hurlock_ @NIOReaction @soapjackal ... They have been honed for adequacy among paleolithic human groups. Beyond that, they're suspect.
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