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What is programming or technology, really? Well, you could say it's just a series of electrical impulses processed by transistors, interpreted as binary by the CPU, and then abstracted into human-readable languages like C. It's really interesting how we've developed a syntax that abstracted out machine code into human readable formats, and through this we've harnessed the power of computation to give birth to the next era of human civilization which is the era of information, increasing our predictive power of people at a large scale through social media apps and other platforms alike.

There’s a great book by John Gall called Systemantics, which explores how systems in human societies have evolved to the point of developing their own agency—almost always at the cost of human well-being. John Gall is a pediatrician who treated special needs children, which is what got him interested in systems. Hilarious guy, starts off his book by pretending the whole thing was a top secret experiment that turned lots of scientists retarded.

I think this point has been made several times by different thinkers, authors, and people. Which is that when a system becomes too complex, it seizes to serve human interest in the service of the existence of that system. One of the natural laws of systems is that while they try to fix problems, the net number of problems doesn't reduce, there's still a universe of other technical problem that the system produces, it's analogues to how suffering is inevitable in life, you choose not to do the work and you suffer the regret of not doing it, you choose to do the work and you suffer the effort of doing it. But maybe the latter is a kind of suffering that can actually be enjoyable since it has the potential to be meaningful, and maybe through choosing the right suffering we create something better than our previous mode of existence.

One of the things I like to observe when I dive deep into ideas from a metaphysical standpoint is that they tend to hold patterns that you can see relayed at different levels of reality, which shows how patterned existence really is. We can draw analogies from many different things