My theory: they are associated with successful, large tech companies (e.g., Google, Amazon). These companies are seen as cool, and so the engineering work they do (distributed systems) is also seen as cool.
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By contrast, I don’t remember distributed systems being seen as “cool” in the 90s.
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One very speculative suspicion is that it resonates with imaginative processes due to parallels with how brains & groups works. I once half jokingly coined a term pointing to it: 'Hebbian consensus protocols' (For those unfamiliar: Hebb coined "fire together wire together")
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It reminds me of the excitement students feel when they see material in math class that they can use in a physics class or (vice versa) in the same week. I think it’s tied into our sense of finding connections which makes data compression easier for us. It’s like finding sugar.
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Maybe because they seem more natural compared to alternatives. Art want to imitate nature, and programmers want to be artists. Or how my grandpa used to say, only the artist is near to God. On the other side I think there are in general 2 kinds of macro groups 1/2
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those who find nature something to imitate (let's create complex systems, cybernetics + hayek = artificial markets) and those who find nature something to "solve" (AI. You know you are guilty lol) 2/2
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Distribution implies broader engagement.
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Because they're more complicated and require thinking of nodes like they have some level of autonomy
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because they are
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back in 2005 or so, working for a game studio, the level processing I needed to do required *lots* of compute. I made a parallel processing engine that ran in the background on every PC in the studio was very fun to use a computer with 100 times the grunt of my desktop
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