"there are lots of unofficial power centers in the us and you probably know about all of them therefore some bullshit i believed anyway plus 19976 filler words"
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Replying to @ITBeHa @eigenrobot
“The software consists of multiple components, some of which couple and some of which compute. There is I/O.” literally a complete description of every system, and yet
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Replying to @ITBeHa
yes I was going to say software is a terrible metaphor here and probably what he was drawing from
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Not sure software is particularly terrible domain-wise for law/gov structure (in the way it is terrible for biology, say – and as biology often is for politics), but I’d be interested in an elaboration.
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Replying to @ITBeHa @eigenrobot
I mean his twee-but-serious wordiness – you can tell he is a wet eyes kinda dude from his prose – is definitely something you either love or hate; I happen to love but I noticed it makes me a much worse tech writer when I had a lot of it
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Replying to @ITBeHa
I guess the tendency to lump people into big collections that function as boxes is misleading and misses a lot of micro movement, gunning for a systematic and granular object-oriented model just feels deeply clunky for something as complex as the us polity
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Replying to @eigenrobot
certainly true but what do you derive from it? who’s smart enough to have a working model including every single person? feels like an “all wrong some useful” kinda thing
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I either lack the vocabulary or can’t follow the metaphor
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its probly not worth it, its not big brain just niche hes trying to add a bunch of structure and dynamics that are too complicated and not complicated enough Im sorry I'm really tired this is incoherent it's all me not you
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