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A Note on Essential Complexity

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159 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 17 Jun 24 22:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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boznz ◴[17 Jun 24 23:25 UTC] No.40712390[source]▶
Humans simply cannot keep the whole stack for a complex system in memory, that is why we abstract layers with APIs etc and generally specialize on one layer only.

My (Sci-Fi) book postulated that an AGI (a real AGI, after all it was Sci-Fi) would simply discard everything the humans wrote and rewrite the complete stack (including later on the Hardware and ISA) in machine code without anything unnecessary for the task and of course totally unreadable to a human. It is an interesting scenario to ponder.

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1. metadat ◴[18 Jun 24 00:36 UTC] No.40712846[source]▶
I checked out your book link < https://rodyne.com/?p=1252 >, is there a preview chapter or two somewhere? That's cool you wrote a compelling sci-fi but my list is competitive :)
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2. boznz ◴[18 Jun 24 06:19 UTC] No.40714587[source]▶
I doubt the first two or three chapters will do it justice. I have put a free to download link on the bottom of that page for the complete book as an ePub, I will keep the link valid for a few days. Enjoy.
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3. CRConrad ◴[18 Jun 24 12:47 UTC] No.40717193[source]▶
From your page:

> I have to buy the sequel, then another, then wait, or in some cases wait forever and hope the author, or I, don’t die before finishing it!

So, how old are you -- got burned by A Song of Ice and Fire, or by The Wheel of Time? :-)

Oh yeah, and: Thanks for the download!

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4. metadat ◴[18 Jun 24 19:49 UTC] No.40721496[source]▶
Wow that's generous and kind of you, thanks!
5. boznz ◴[18 Jun 24 20:12 UTC] No.40721750{3}[source]▶
Those are the ones most people who started reading fantasy in the last century remember. I started reading in 1979 and there are quite a few other good unfinished series out there.

There are also quite a few modern ones which start awesome, then fizzle out into never-ending soap operas once the author realizes they are on the gravy train and those are even more disappointing IMHO.

Books need endings :)