I think the thing that’s so weird to me is this idea that we have to all somehow internalize the concept of transistor switching as the foundational unchangeable root of computing and therefore anything that is too far abstract from that is not somehow real computing or something mess like that

Again ignoring completely that when you would program vacuum tube computers it was an entirely different type of abstraction than you do with Mosfets for example

I’m finding myself in the position where I can safely ignore any conversation about engineering with anybody who thinks that there is a “right” way to do it or that there’s any kind of ceremony or thinking pattern that needs to stay stable

Those are all artifacts of humans desiring very little variance and things that they’ve even encoded because it takes real energy to have to reconfigure your own internal state model to a new paradigm