1/ Analogies are tricky. When used appropriately, they reduce complex ideas into familiar concepts so that they are easier to understand. Otoh, bad analogies oversimplify things to the point that they lose all touch with reality & confuse more than help.https://twitter.com/TusharJain_/status/972145928902758400 …
IMO not quite. Immutability has never been a concept in distributed systems or computer science. To understand immutability, we have to look at the physical world & the realm of hard physics (first principle).
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Concept of immutability existed in computer science, just in a more narrow sense. But the whole point of first principal reasoning is to build axioms, and its hard for me to see how the abstract concept of scarcity has to be tied to the large activation barrier for atomic fusion
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If you're referring to immutable variables in computer science, then yes it's defined in a very narrow sense & has little application outside of the programming environment. Whereas PoW immutability transcends the digital world.https://twitter.com/hugohanoi/status/957092528209117185 …
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Yeah fair enough, I guess the extension of the idea to the extent were discussing fundamentally changes it. I guess I'm still stuck on the fence, I never find the physics analogies to be compelling, but PoW is proven and PoS isn't. Will be interesting to see what happens
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