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by papaf 3909 days ago
a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable

I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc...

I understood Alan Kay to be saying that a lot of abstractions are actually making things too simple. I would understand the point to mean "a lower level of abstraction can make the big picture more tractable".