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Monday, August 18, 2003
Three Laws of Nonsense -- James Robertson passes along (from his Uncle Noel) "Three Laws of Nonsense"...
1. The source of nonsense is that for every piece of nonsense there exists an irrelevant frame of reference in which the item is sensible.
2. The persistance of nonsense comes from rigorous arguments from inapplicable assumptions.
3. The diffusion of nonsense results from the fact that people are more specialist than problems.
As Sébastien Paguet, who provided the pointage, says, "this is profound."
Number 1 feels like it's related to the conflicts between local and global optimization. Number 2 is reminiscent of previous mentions of invisible dogma and superstitions. And regarding Number 3, I've recently been describing my specialization as "being a generalist."
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