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by initramfs 514 days ago
The world is becoming an algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creepy_Line Algorithms create a compression of search values not unlike a Cartesian plane.

The question is, will more people embrace the Cartesian compression of ubiquitous internet communication?

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Isn't Nature like algorithms at work?
You mean the journal? ;)

More seriously: An algorithm is discrete (consists of discrete steps). Nature however appears to operate in a continuous fashion.

yes and no. ones encoded by the previous generation, and biological life is an open or partially open system