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The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality"). As I read this, I couldn't stop thinking of one of my favorite quotes,
by edw519 17y ago
The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality").
As I read this, I couldn't stop thinking of one of my favorite quotes, which succinctly describes the essence of hacking:
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." - Albert Einstein
- messel 17y agoThanks Ed, surprising I never came across that quote before but it helps put an argument I've been trying to work through together better. It's obscure but: A subject within a system can't possibly have knowledge of all states within the same system, only an external perspective can see the true state of all things. It's related to self perception, and maybe the limits of what we can understand about our universe.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoYou should read about Godel's incompleteness theorem, if you haven't already.
- anonjon 17y agoAlso read Wittgenstein. This is the sort of thing he was trying to convey in his first work. (Language is a system for describing problems and sometimes we ask problems about the language system itself, which cannot be answered within that system).
- mkramlich 17y agoand then read this brilliant book, perfect for hackers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach
- zach 17y agoAnd by Albert Einstein, I assume you mean "anonymous clever guy." This appears to be another modern attribution, although not entirely out of character.
- Huppie 17y agoI'm not sure but a quick google for the sentence had Albert Einstein mentioned an awful lot of times.