This is a profound concept. I've known this in computers for some time, but was only able to parse the concept by understanding the philosophical difference bet

This is a profound concept. I've known this in computers for some time, but was only able to parse the concept by understanding the philosophical difference between utility (closely resonant with "purpose") and metaphysical reality (simply what "is"). It's interesting as well because the only time I've grokked efficiency is when it refers to algorithmic efficiency, where the data efficiency often gets overlooked because it's abstracted onto the hardware encoding level and completely misses the OS. Though, that lends me some more thinking to do on this, since my new life's purpose is to create improved information[1]. I'm getting the feeling that better data could make better processes, though I'm not sure how that would implement beyond the broad concept of "data cleaning" (which is nothing more than uniformity in a set). [1]https://stucky.tech/purpose/ https://stucky.tech/purpose/