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> A programmer leveraging distributed compute is nothing like coordinating an organization.

It seems some of us have taken the analogy of the CPU to a brain a little bit too literally and reducing human interaction to computing flows. It might be true in a very strict sense if you wanna go hardcore materialist (which is fine philosophically), but it seems like a shitty mental model, doesn’t it?




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