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metalliqazlast Thursday at 8:21 PM1 replyview on HN

> FTs are actually very reasonable, in the sense that they are a easy to reason about conceptually and in practice.

ok but it's not the FTs that are unreasonable, it's the effectiveness

I think we all understand at this point that "unreasonable effectiveness" just means "surprisingly useful in ways we might not have immediately considered"


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IAmBroomlast Thursday at 8:46 PM

The HN audience is filled with the world's densest collection of literalists and nitpickers: software engineers.

Metaphorical language compels them to microrebuttals.