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principles which are simple enough, fundamental enough, and general enough that they’re likely to carry over to the next paradigm. I don’t know what the next paradigm will be, yet; the particulars of a proof or formulation of a problem might end up obsolete. But I look for principles which I expect will survive, even if the foundations shift beneath them.
Look for Principles Which Will Carry Over to the Next Paradigm - LessWrong
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32. Anattā:
There's nothing constant about a person. Habits are picked up & dropped. Beliefs asserted & refuted. Dreams forged & shattered. Passions ignited & extinguished. The self is a work-in-progress being constantly rewritten.
And yet we’re all judged as if we’re final.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
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[*Programming as Theory Building*](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf):
> At least with certain kinds of large programs, the continued adaptation, modification, and correction of errors in them, is essentially dependent on a certain kind of knowledge possessed by a group of programmers who are closely and continuously connected with them.
> Programming should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.
Software Design Is Knowledge Building
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