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Successful abstractions are more visible because they are used, while many other abstractions fail to gain adoption and are quickly forgotten.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“There are plenty of abstractions which never actually took off, never actually... We only see the good abstraction because the good abstractions are the ones that are actually used.”
“There's a long tale of ones which just started and then kind of forgotten about very quickly.”Play from 1:59:07Report a misattribution
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