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A great insight? Where is the insight if there is no way to know? Objectively speaking, you end up exactly the same way you started. It is as if I said: oh, t
by germandiago 2mo ago
A great insight? Where is the insight if there is no way to know?
Objectively speaking, you end up exactly the same way you started.
It is as if I said: oh, the app hangs: infinite loop or crash and frozen? It is one or the other, but never both. Yet you do not know if there is no way for further inspection.
- echelon_musk 2mo agoThe insight is not into either state but toward the relation of the states.
- wartywhoa23 2mo agoExactly, the metadata is the key to encrypted data.
- kjs3 2mo agoNot everything in real life distills to a programming analogy.
- germandiago 2mo agoMy point was about what you can or cannot know depending on how much you can inspect. It could have been anything else the example.
- wartywhoa23 2mo ago> Objectively speaking, you end up exactly the same way you started. Absolutely not. You end up feeling you're unable to explain x86_64 instruction set you just saw and understood not only to your fellow tribesmen gathered around the campfire and waiting for your trip report in a language which lacks even a remote possibility to explain that, but even to yourself. Yet, the knowledge of the fact of seeing and understanding persists.