[loss_flow]

Worth noting that Popper himself would probably reject this as he explicitly argues history has no meaning or direction. I'm inclined to see this view as in tension with the idea that openness promotes growth combined with the idea that growth is self-selecting

[epsilonic]

Sounds like nihilism.

[kibwen]

The output of /dev/random doesn't have meaning, but that doesn't make my kernel a nihilist.

[epsilonic]

Not a useful analogy because nihilism is a human pursuit, not an OS one. The aggregate history of humanity does have meaning; it embodies information, cultural transmission, a lineage of ideas, which are all artifacts of human interactions that often shape the trajectory of civilization and the choices we make as individuals.