[nologic01]

More economic title: "Holy wars are coordination problems".

As an uncanny cosmic coincidence would have it, today is an anniversary of the Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council [1] by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, as well as by certain other Western Churches. The Council met in 680-681 AD and condemned, wait for it: monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical.

Coordination problems are not even "problems". They are the stuff of Homo Sapiens social life. The underlying reality, to the extent it exists at all, is but an excuse to engage in enthusiastic formation of competing clans.

If people can engage in passionate discussion (all the way to actual destructive war) over "monoenergism" they can also do so about Python 2 versus 3 or any other harebrained perpetual holy war in tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Council_of_Constantinopl...