thoughtfulmadison

I'm new to the LW community, and I've been reading the seminal works. After reading Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch and Zvi's Moloch Hasn't Won, I wanted to add a couple thoughts - mostly additional rebuttal of "Meditations...". To summarize Scott’s argument: * With a few exceptions, because of game...

Programmers are familiar with navigating interfaces and protocols. Whether it’s ASCII, a function signature, an OOP interface, HTTP, or gRPC, these kinds of interfaces are ubiquitous, exist at all levels of abstraction, and are necessary for connecting distinct modules to form a coherent system. I've been musing about the ways...