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Sounds like the Nick Szabo's argument: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/tradition.html http://szabo.best.vwh.net/tradition.html <blockquote> Post-Hayek and algorithmi
by zby 14y ago
Sounds like the Nick Szabo's argument: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/tradition.html http://szabo.best.vwh.net/tradition.html
<blockquote>
Post-Hayek and algorithmic information theory, we recognize that information-bearing codes can be computed (and in particular, ideas evolved from the interaction of people with each other over many lifetimes), which are
(a) not feasibly rederivable from first principles,
(b) not feasibly and accurately refutable
(given the existence of the code to be refuted)
(c) not even feasibly and accurately justifiable
(given the existence of the code to justify)
</blockquote>
- jacques_chester 14y agoInteresting. I hadn't connected those exact dots. Reading Hayek has definitely made me more skeptical of designed systems -- and so has my experience in the software profession (second system effect).