Ah interesting. I guess when I think of abstraction, I think of a boundary over which complexity is reduced, and therefore information is lost. My more personal

Ah interesting. I guess when I think of abstraction, I think of a boundary over which complexity is reduced, and therefore information is lost. My more personal sense is that a ton of human misery comes from poorly chosen abstraction. Or abstraction where there should be none. The idea of "the tyranny of the database" was where I first encountered this: > At a higher, more semantic level, a subtle distortion in how we perceive reality took hold: things that were hard to represent in databases became alternately devalued and fetishized. [...] Once in awhile a technical counter-current would take hold and try to push back on the tyranny of the database, but the general trend held firm: if it does not fit in the database, it does not exist. > You may not think you know this world of databases, but you live in it. [...] Every time a customer service assistant shrugs and says “computer says no” or an organization acts in crazy, inflexible ways, odds-are there’s a database underneath which has a limited, rigid view of reality and it’s simply too expensive to fix the software to make the organization more intelligent. https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/by-the-end-of-this-article-youre-going-to-understand-blockchains-in-general-and-ethereum-a-next-e11df6a1d7cf#:~:text=At%20a%20higher,as%20punched%20cards https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/by-the-end-of-....