I place a high premium on honesty, but I also like things that work.
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To be very clear: That complex systems have abstractions isn't a surprise to me. It's that any system in which you _haven't_ had to unlearn half your assumptions, isn't a system you've learned in the first place. At least for systems of any complexity.
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Law is a lot more ex post facto, and he-who-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules, than it would appear. Medicine is a lot more "just distract the patient till the body fixes itself". Microprocessor behavior is determined, on other things. Global PKI is a lot more DNS than it appears.
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If it's an abstraction that's already closer to the truth than what people usually observe. More like the halo an abstraction.
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It's the _unlearning_ that's interesting to me.
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ever read Herbert Simon?
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You are referring to something of Simon's other than satisficing?
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All of it.
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Any communication with audience more than 10 abstract the clumsy truths into elegant half truths at best and complete lies at worst. Job then for people who need to actually work on it is to unwrap it and go beyond the abstractions. It's the defence system built to avoid noise.
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