Comment by zkmon
2 months ago
Does python coding depend on political facts of the world?
It might appear not, but actually, the process of reasoning is not an isolated act. The right and wrong way of doing things is codified in social evolution that absorbed all facets of life. Why should you optimize a piece of code for performance? Why performance is needed? What is a bug? What features and UI themes would be more intuitive for humans?
There is a butterfly effect. Everything affects everything to some extent.
True, but this model provides something of a lower bound on just how much world knowledge is really needed for unrelated reasoning tasks. That lower bound appears to be quite low indeed. Lower than I thought it would turn out to be.
This thing is just bonkers.
[dead]