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"...statements made in technical jargon often sound absurd if you forget the underlying definitions." - the article
by throwawayjava 8y ago
"...statements made in technical jargon often sound absurd if you forget the underlying definitions." - the article
- crb002 8y agoKolmogorov had deep insight into bandwidth needed to send information, i.e. the limits of compression. Shannon showed the limits of communication over a noisy channel. CAP teased out constraints on distributed information processing systems over large distances.
- throwawayjava 8y agoSure. But from none of this does it follow that "Policies that work at a local level don't scale to a Frederal level". Or to put it another way, to the extent that we interpret local and federal and so on formally enough that they retain any connection to information theory, we're no longer talking about politics. The words either have their political meaning or their formal meaning, but pseudomathematical sophistry that conflates formal and informal statements in the same breath leads to quackery and nonsense, which is exactly one of the article's critiques of libertarianism as a framework. The CAP theorem occupies a similar place in pseudomathematics as Goedels theorems. An important result, but almost never for the reasons that someone attempting to use it to make a non-rigorous mathematical argument thinks it is...