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>What most people usually mean by "complex" software is that its Kolmogorov complexity I disagree. What most people usually mean by "complex" in any context is
by Dudeman112 4y ago
>What most people usually mean by "complex" software is that its Kolmogorov complexity
I disagree. What most people usually mean by "complex" in any context is some fuzzy not-really-defined thing they aren't really sure about. You're bonkers if you think most people's minds refer to a soft intuition for descriptive complexity when they say the expression "complex", even if the context is software
Having said that, I do agree with your original reply since you were thinking of that specific type of complexity
- jxf 4y ago> I disagree. What most people usually mean by "complex" in any context is some fuzzy not-really-defined thing they aren't really sure about. I didn't say that this is what people mean in "any context" but rather _specifically_ in software (see the quoted text in your post). I do agree that people are fuzzy about it; that's also why I also said that there is frequently a confusion between _complexity_ and _difficulty_.
- Dudeman112 4y agoYou vastly overestimate your peers Software is a subset of any context, which is why I figured it would have been fine to replace it with the more general idea