Software development is at once more pure and less general than other kinds of engineering: the result is not an artifact, but an extremely detailed physical law, which is valid across all possible universes.
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What would you say that they are? What is a law and what makes it physical?
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I think of a physical law as a discoverable invariance that emerges over the structure of reality. These invariances are usually conditional on something else, which weaves them into a giant, growing model of the dynamics of the physical world.
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