Ancestors

Toot

Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-12 at 14:37

Imagine you're a scrambler.

Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. You decode the signals, and stumble:

State management is the real hardest problem in computer science. The only way to truly manage state is to minimize it—

So much easier to reason about without side effects—

Map, reduce, and filter is all you need—

More confident making changes—

Monads.

There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently.

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Descendants

Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-12 at 14:37

... in case anyone were wondering if I were still on my bullshit about Peter Watts' 2006 novel "Blindsight"

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