Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The problem, of course, is that much of the real world is *qualitative*, and the act ...

The problem, of course, is that much of the real world is *qualitative*, and the act of quantizing those qualia is a *very* lossy process. To quantize a qualitative question is to incinerate all the qualitative aspects and then do mathematics on the dubious quantitative ash that is left behind:

https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-qualia/

In their paper, Farrell and Shalizi cite Ben Recht's maxim that "you can’t optimize a trade-off":

https://www.argmin.net/p/are-there-always-trade-offs

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