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Seems kind of clear to me we’re driving towards as little statefulness as possible, compressed symbolic logic, that’s able to compute as many states as possible. Less resource use on RAM and storage as available chip cycles continues to grow

Human biology is a min/max engine, evolved for years to “enough” food, shelter… and we see daily there is not static state to reality. Our social behavior to try and preserve state is some cognitive dissonant “War is Peace.” insanity

Math is a compressed form of communication. “Add two apples to the set of all apples” is literally more glyphs than the same statement in usual math syntax. Paper and written literacy was hard to come by back in the day, but verbal literacy was cheap and ubiquitous.

The economy is built on physical statistical measures. Such a framework to keep TP and food on shelves is the minimal state needed to keep people from rioting. Economy has nothing to do with historical story and political memes at this point.

We could look further into computing in other substrates, like mycelia. Biochemically shape structure to represent certain states.

Computing is a concept not coupled to contemporary ignorant business machines. We made a social monolith around computing by propping up big tech




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