What we can X depends on what we can Y
From apm
Take the "we" in the following as us humans and our computer systems combined.
- (0) "What we can say (to our computers) depends on how good our programming languages are."
- (1) "What we can think depends on what we can say." – this relates to Linguistic relativity (aka Sapir–Whorf hypothesis)
- (2) "What we can make depends on what we can collectively think" – interpreting communication structure as collective thinking – this relates to Conway's Law
- (3) "What we can do depends on what we can make." – by Eric K. Drexler (?)
Chaining all these together (which is kinda ridiculous, yes) gives:
- "What we can do depends on what we can say" – Whorf-Conway-Drexler
- "What we can do depends on how good our programming languages are" – extended Whorf-Conway-Drexler
This is nonsense ...
Yes, quite likely, this is a perfect example of puzzling barely matching pieces together in a long questionable logical chain
in order to arrive at exactly the result that initially was initially desired.
With no way of formalizing and fact checking it provided.
Reminds a bit on That children's game "telephone" ("silent post" in German).
Good chance the other end only gibberish comes out.
Still, it seems kind of like an interesting idea, so here ↕ is a page about it.
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