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Any system that doesn’t ruthlessly self edit winds up like a genomic katamari. Systems are like babies: once you get one, you have it.[a.] They don’t go away.
by adolph 2y ago
Any system that doesn’t ruthlessly self edit winds up like a genomic katamari.
Systems are like babies: once you get one, you have it.[a.] They don’t go away. On the contrary, they display the most remarkable persistence. They not only persist; they grow. And as they grow, they encroach. The growth potential of Systems was explored in a tentative, preliminary way by Parkinson, who concluded that Administrative Systems maintain an average rate of growth of five to six percent per annum (corrected for inflation) regardless of the work to be done.
- from Systematics by John Gall
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
(Well aware of how “junk” DNA is linked to functions elsewhere, and that the subtleties involved represent an evolutionary aggregation equivalent to why acli is 1.5G.)
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics