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by fauigerzigerk 1020 days ago
> There's a non-zero cognitive cost to the author and all subsequent readers.

No, the cognitive cost of a particular abstraction relative to all other abstractions under consideration can be negative.

The option of not using any abstraction doesn’t exist. If you disagree with that then I think we have to go back one step and ask what an abstraction even is.