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Generalized Backhaul Law: Every sufficiently complex system has a preferred direction with forward DO behaviors being asymmetrically more efficient than backward UNDO behaviors. Container shipping backhaul Package returns (reverse logistics) Payment reversals/refunds
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Corollary: In sufficiently complex systems that are also Turing-complete, this reduces to the second law via Landauer’s principle (deleting bits increases entropy in a universal Turing machine)
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For humans, the direction is set by digestion. Food to poop. Pooping is do (well, doodoo) and vomiting is undo.
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But not that even this can get complex: cf ruminants with 4 stomachs, birds that practice regurgitation feeding of young, etc.
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Venkatesh I want to know how I can inhale all your words. Every Tweet leaves me frustrated at how little I understand the world.