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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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This asymmetry induced a native non-strict temporality. It rhymes with the second law/entropy but is not always an obvious direct consequence.
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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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yes it's an abstraction layer on a stack of arrows of time, what I call the temporality stack in the book I'm writing... this particular one is one I'm mulling about which layer it belongs in
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there comes a time in every analogy's life when it has to be shed that the next stage of its argument might reach escape velocity (:
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Thinking of data engineering as an example too. When releasing new code into production, especially that changes data, a good process will include a rollback script to return to pre-release state. It can be tricky, but the goal is to reduce the complexity to a button
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