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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Narandia

      I saw a cool line in a play once where the protagonist - an English major who ended up going into coding as a career - gets mad that his fellow programmers don't understand what he means by "Scylla and Charybdis" Ranting about how it's a failure of abstractionhttps://twitter.com/NarandiaOwl/status/1302537758720876545 …

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      Narandia @NarandiaOwl
      Replying to @arthur_affect
      I mean even before we called it memes we already had plenty of stories that work this way, much like Picard uses the epic of Gilgamesh as one of his tales. The difference was that the aliens communicate exclusively through them which is why the translator failed.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "When designing computer languages we seek to devise higher-level languages by enabling greater and greater degrees of abstraction When building an application we aim for even higher abstraction than that, so the user can execute a complex series of commands with one click"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "Meanwhile, the shared literature that forms the basis of our common language becomes more obscure and forgotten The reference pools of popular culture are ever more fragmented"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "When I say Scylla and Charybdis I convey in a three word metaphor what would take a paragraph for me to describe literally"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "Having to explain how it's different from a rock and a hard place, how Scylla is a known threat with frightening fixed costs but Charybdis an unknown one whose costs are probabilistic, which might do nothing or be catastrophic"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "And hence why Odysseus displayed a difficult kind of moral courage by erring on the side of Scylla even when she was devouring his men Do you see? Today it takes one line of code to do what once required a hundred, but it takes a hundred lines if English what once required one"

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      "We make it easier and easier to communicate with our machines, just as it becomes harder and harder to communicate to our fellow humans And we wonder why we've come to prefer the former"

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      It was kind of a Boomer rant (the guy was an obvious author avatar for the author, who was in fact a Boomer who majored in English and became a programmer) But he has a point Memes are the new literary allusions, but the audience for memes is probably a lot narrower

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      The very fact that, you know, if I'm trying to use the Distracted Boyfriend meme to say something I'm probably not talking to anyone my parents' age

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

      Actually I'm trying to think if there is a Twitter meme that means what "Scylla and Charybdis" does "The movie villain vs the real villain" isn't really it

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        2. Narandia‏ @NarandiaOwl 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          first thing I see on google is using them as an analogy of "choosing the lesser of two evils"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @NarandiaOwl

          Yeah that's not completely it though Part of the point is Charybdis is invisible and there's a huge temptation to gamble by steering closer to it

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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        1. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I’d argue that if there was an actual genuine resonance for this specific concept it would already exist in meme form

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          two buttons, sweating

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        3. Lenoxus‏ @Lenoxus 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

          Heh, but the interesting thing is that (at least in ones I see) the sweating hero would usually like to press *both* buttons rather than neither

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