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This has big "can you call it broken if it never actually worked in the first place?" energy. EDIT: I have a soft spot for the person who is so over it that th

This has big "can you call it broken if it never actually worked in the first place?" energy. EDIT: I have a soft spot for the person who is so over it that they sit around pontificating the meaning of the word broken instead of actually getting up and helping in the midst of an emergency. Because half the time that's me. When prod is on fire every day, eventually that becomes the norm.

h2odragon 5y ago
It's much worse than that: it becomes philosophy. Beyond some level of complexity a system isn't one, anymore, it is an emergent phenomenon that has many of the aspects we ascribe to "life." Our inputs affect the systems, surely, but not in a predictable or even repeatable way. A cow is an "inefficient means" of turning grass into tasty beef, by some accounting. But the cow is, as far as it is concerned, fully efficient at being alive. our notion of "what is the internet" fell out of sync with the realities sometime around '94 i think.