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Re:The Popper Principle by loss_flow on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:01PM (#47092298)
Worth noting that Popper himself would probably reject this as he explicitly argues history has no meaning or direction. I'm inclined to see this view as in tension with the idea that openness promotes growth combined with the idea that growth is self-selecting
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Re:The Popper Principle by epsilonic on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:25PM (#47094193)
Sounds like nihilism.
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Re:The Popper Principle by kibwen on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:34PM (#47094302)
The output of /dev/random doesn't have meaning, but that doesn't make my kernel a nihilist.
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Re:The Popper Principle by epsilonic on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:10PM (#47156279)
Not a useful analogy because nihilism is a human pursuit, not an OS one. The aggregate history of humanity does have meaning; it embodies information, cultural transmission, a lineage of ideas, which are all artifacts of human interactions that often shape the trajectory of civilization and the choices we make as individuals.
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