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Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by jayd16 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:07PM (#22377646)
This is kind of a word game though. As soon as you find a way to lower complexity it becomes the new essential complexity until someone lowers it again.
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Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by goto11 on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:33AM (#22381323)
Are you arguing there is no such thing as essential complexity? In that case it would be possible to compress any program down to one bit, without moving the complexity elsewhere.
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